District Govermen
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Fiji
Suva, Dec. 20
r'.E Governor’s recent plan to : organise District Administrati for Fijians is timely. 1 mana of the old-time Disti Officer still lingers; and, if Gove] ment has had to set the clock hi 16 years by re-establishing D.O.’s the agents between Provincial I ministration and Central Gove] ment it is not so much a denial the Fijians’ ability to handle th own affairs, as an admission haste in removing D.O.’s before 1 Fijian people were ready to ti over.
It is expected that the new offic will be given wider powers to p vide the “stiffening of leadersh hinted at; and the Fijians the selves will doubtless appreciate 1 opportunity of closer contact increase their own knowledge a experience.