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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 March 1955Vol. XXV, No. 8

Fiji’s Anti-TB Campaign

p. 97 · Read in the full issue

Awaits London Decision

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Fiji Government statement in February again emphasised the fact that nrn?rps<; in thp Colony’s anti-TB campaign is not ofThe W P ar n Memoi P i°a? Mir Ste

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cuiosis tund, The Government acknowledges h Q a l. received’ an offer of w lal 4-u ssist 4- a , from . th * e Fund towards the establishment of a new m the Lautoka area, 18 drie , r d .

MV han the present old build mg at Tamavua.

The Government cannot proceed with construction until London de cides on the allocation of funds from the Colonjdl Development and Welfare fund for 1955-60. , , The statement says: “It would not be P oSSlbl e to plan m detail until

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Until the of ' State d approved the Government’s pro posalg for raising loans from out . side sources.”

The Anti-TB Fund therefore will not make any further public appeal for expansion of its funds for the present, and until Fiji Health De partment is in a position to use all the money that the Fund can make available for the campaign.