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Fiji there is one motor-vehicle to about every 40 people. ‘ Not a high percentage, as overseas hide statistics go, but it is a :t that there are now twice as my licenced vehicles in Fiji ,211 in 1956) as there were four ars ago.

More vehicles have meant more trol consumption 6,386,000 lions last year—and corresponding lount of lubricating oil and Bases.

Ihe Customs Department is tting its share of the increased troleum imports and last year llected something like £211,300 in ty thereon. As the Colony spent ly £136,000 on roads, consolidated yenue is still showing a healthy ofit on the motor trade, rhe Suva Chamber of Commerce inks that at least £50,000 of this uld be spent each year in the xt three years to bring the road Dm Suva to Nadi international rport to all-weather standard.

The Fiji Broadcasting Com ission’s 180-ft radio mast at unavua, Fiji, which was twisted it of alignment in the 1953 rthquake, has been straightened it and overhauled.