Books For All In Fiji
p. 117 · Read in the full issue
LIBRARY services in Fiji to people outside Suva have been extended recently through the British Council’s Book Box scheme, and the Commissioner for the Gov ernment of India is shortly to start a similar scheme.
The British Council scheme is now operating in at least 14 centres outside the capital. The boxes are
sent from Suva at regular intervals and boxes containing books which have already been circulated at a particular centre are returned for issue elsewhere.
The books are available to all who care to avail themselves of the ser vice, and circulation is supervised by a voluntary librarian.
The scheme is designed to bring books to communities which would otherwise be denied them. t Mr. W. G. Johnson, chairman and managing director of W. R.
Carpenter and Co. (Fiji) Ltd. was in Sydney early this month on a business trip.