Air Force May Ea
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Suva House Short
SOME easing of Suva’s acute ! ing shortage is hoped fon result of the New Zealand! ernment’s decision to £1,000,000 on the improvemenr extension of the Royal New\ land Air Force station at Lsi Bay, a Suva suburb.
The planned expenditure inr £llO,OOO on houses at the statl accommodate married personij It has become clear that rm men are reluctant to move fro Dominion to Fiji without families, and without ad! accommodation at the station,] airmen have to live outside.
At the present time abo families are living in flats or in the Suva area. This has no, increased the housing shortag according to common belief, affected the level of rents. H 3 the Air Force pays half thr in these cases, the Air Force : are in a position to pay high© than most local people—a sitJ made to order for some Indisi European landlords.
If The Rev. S. G. Andrews, fo of Fiji and now general see of overseas missions fo' Methodist Church in New Z 3 recently visited mission statd New Guinea and the Solomoi Tari, in the NG Highlano.
Andrews was entertained 1 Rev. C. J. and Mrs. KeighU baptised Barbara Jean, the j second daughter of Mr. am Keightley, who is the firstf pean child born at Tari.
H Sub-Inspector Krishna NP Indian member of the Fiji i has gone to London for six r training at Hendon Police to be followed by four moic New Scotland Yard.