Can Understand

“Even a Ratepayer Can Understand Suva Finances Now”

SUVA’S former Mayor, Mr. D. M. N.

McFarlane, had done good work in putting the city’s affairs in order, and this process had been continued by Mr. A. D. Leys in his first term as Mayor, said a retiring Councillor, Mr. W. G. Johnson, at a Council meeting in October.

Mr. Johnson added that nowadays the Council’s financial situation was stated so clearly every month that “even a ratepayer is able to under stand it.”

Besides being managing-director of W. R. Carpenter and Co. (Fiji) Ltd., Mr. Johnson is a member of the Legislative Council and chair man of the Suva Chamber of Com merce. He has been a City Coun cillor for several years.

First Fijian member of the Suva City Council is Ratu Anare Rai walui, a Government nominee appointed to succeed Mr. R. A.

Derrick.

The appointment has been warmly approved by those who have long urged that the Suva Fijians, who include an increasing number of ratepayers, should be brought more closely into touch with civic life.

The new member, who is still a

young man, is well known as o ductor of the famous Centen Church Choir. His book of Fii idioms, Na i Vosavosa e So, published last year by the Ojo University Press for the So.

Pacific Commission’s Literati Bureau.