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Suva, You Ask a Taxi Driver
city of Suva probably is lue among the capitals of world in that it is without ed houses in its streets, and regular mail deliveries— within a district within a of hundred yards of the Sice. now are over 40,000 people i. The streets extend for om the Chief Post Office valleys and over the hills, s not a numbered building of them. would be bad enough in
-language, one-community
■t creates endless difficulties munication and transport nail city where there are ommunities, and three js are constanly employed. run anywhere within a lius for 3/-, and the Indian seem to know the dwelling r man and woman in the Tiat is what prevents chaos. >e, one has no way of anyone whose address is ome street or road —and a of these thoroughfares are length. presumably, is why the ice has arranged no general by postmen, as in any rge centre in the civilised Even postmen are not Hit. ick of street numbers has e organisation of a reliable sr delivery service tarac npossible. ck of numbers in the streets \ before the City Council non; but the Council just
refuses to get serious about it. No one knows why.
Laut'oka, which insists on being Suva s rival, is showing Suva the way. Lautoka has made prepara nons for the numbering of the buildings in its streets.