Fare Bill—£60,000!
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PASSAGE money paid to Fiji civil servants who went on leave in the 18 months to June cost tax payers more than £60,000.
An Indian member, Mr. Vishnu Deo, was told this in the Legislative Council recently when he asked some pertinent questions on the subject.
He was informed that in 1953 and the first six months of 1954, 400 civil servants had been granted leave from the Colony. They were paid £98,063 in salaries while they were away, plus £9,491 cost-of hving allowance and £60,609 passage money.
Fifty-eight of them went on leave to the UK, 122 to Australia and New Zealand and 220 else where.