Public Works Progress In Fiji

The Mechanical Engineer's branch of the Fiji Public Works Department in early 1959 will move from its present cramped and gloomy workshops at Walu Bay, Suva, to a site, two and a lalf times bigger, next to the Royal Suva Yacht Club. These pictures show a drawing of the fiy-out of the new site; and the interior of the biggest workshop, 345 feet by 225 feet. Vehicles ind heavy equipment, such as tractors and bulldozers, will be overhauled and reconditioned in his building.

Some of the hostile criticism of the financial policies of the Fiji Government is concerned nth the operations of this Department—it is argued that some of its activities could have been Earned out by private enterprise, on contract, at much less cost. (Photos by Stinsons).