Disclosures

Top Secret Gazette Disclosures

A Government Gazette is a merci less thing—and nowhere more merciless than in its disclosure of “given” names. The other day, announcing some new regulations, the Papua and New Guinea Gazette started off thus: “I, Paul Mjeernaa Caedwalla Hasluck, Minister of State,” etc.

Gaelic, one presumes. No one guessed that the Minister had a second or third name. The things that are done to little children while they are helpless before the baptismal font! — R.

Mr. Siddiq Moidin Koya, who has been attached to the staff of a legal firm in Tasmania, since com pleting his degree of Bachelor of

Law there some time ago, returned to Fiji recently. Mr. Koya was said to be the first non-European barrister in Tasmania.

Suva’s Wharf Problems

The photograph shows part of Suva’s main wharf and No. 3 shed. People have now been warned that they use this part of the wharf at their own r i s k—which certainly looks to be con siderable. During Spring tides, sea now covers road shown at left, and trucks loading are sometimes axle-deep in salt water. The wharf was in bad repair before the extensive hurricane damage of 1953, and earthquake damage of 1953.

New wharves costing millions are planned in the Walu Bay area. Meantime, this February, the present wharves handled 138,399 tons of overseas shipping.

Photo by Stinsons, Suva.