Big Savings Likely in Fiji's PWD
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Fiji's PWD
WITH simplification and re organisation of purchasing procedure a saving of some £30,000 annually in the Fiji Public Works Department alone is expec ted as a result of the recommen dations of the organising con sultants from England now at work in the Colony.
When stating this to the Legis
lative Council, the Governor (Sir Ronald Garvey) said that further economies in other departments were expected by the time the consultants finished their exam ination towards the end of the year. From the information already obtained there was every indica tion that very substantial savings could accrue from the application of improved working methods.
It was evident, said the Governor, that the need for improving the calibre in most branches of the service was the main single prob lem which had to be solved to ob tain efficiency throughout the administrative machine.
II Corporals Kimbule and Awaihaka, of the Solomon Islands Police, left Honiara on October 11 for the United Kingdom to attend a Police Training Course at Hendon.