New Commissioner
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For Fiji
Mr. Devi Diyal Bhatia Has
been appointed Commissioner for the Government of India in Fiji in succession to Dr. N. V.
Rajkumar, who has gone to Indo china as Deputy Secretary-General of the International Truce Super visory Council.
Mr. Bhatia, aged 47, has held im portant public service posts in India. In 1947, after the partition of India, he was Under-Secretary in the Ministry of External Affairs.
He is expected in Fiji in February.
Largest aircraft ever to land at Nadi Airport, Fiji, was a US Navy Globemaster, weighing over 150,000 lbs, which came south from Hono lulu recently with spare parts for a Boeing C-97 aircraft, grounded there since it was damaged by fire in August. The Globemaster brought U tons of spares and tools.