Improving Fiji Radio
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News Service
EARLY in August, Fiji Broadcast ing Commission instituted an improved local-news service, re placing the weekly Newsletter with three shorter broadcasts of more current news during the week.
As from October 1. this service was further extended to every night at 9.10 pm, with the exception of Saturday and Sunday nights. The programmes are repeated on the fol lowing days at 1.25 pm.
The ultimate aim is to introduce a daily ten-minute broadcast of local news.
t Fisheries Newsletter, of Sydney leports that the Japanese tuna fish ing fleet based on Pago Pago re ceives 9 cents per lb for tuna de livered to the cannery, which is nearly twice as much as Australian fishermen receive from the canneries.
Mr. John Cloke, Senior Superin tendent of African Affairs and Senior Welfare Officer at Broken Hill, East Africa, has been appointed administrative functional officer of the British Council in Fiji. t The Rev. N. C. Deck of the South Sea Evangelical Mission returned to Australia in October after some months in the Solomons inspecting the Mission’s various stations.