Father Of Fiji’s Lefjeo
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Retires
The Honorable Vishnu Deo, leading Piji-Indian politician with 30 years of Legislative Council service to his credit, resigned due to 111-health at the close of the July session. Shortly afterwards, on Mr. Vishnu Dec’s 6(Lh birthday, fellow members of the Legis lative Council entertained him at the Grand Pacific Hotel.
At this function the Colonial Secre tary Mr P. D. Macdonald, announced that’ the Queen had granted Mr.
Vishnu Deo the life right to use the title “Honourable”.
In private life Mr. Deo is an indent agent. Although he had been known in recent years as the “Father of Fiji’s Legislative Council, in his political youth he was regarded as something of a fire-eater. He was one of the Indian members who walked out of the Legislative Council as a re sult of the Indian agitation for the common-roll In the early 1930’5.
The present part-nominative, part elective Legislative system of Fiji, which has operated since 1937, ended most of the Indian agitation—and Mr Vishnu Deo, too, has mellowed with the years.