Plans TO Ease The Suva Rush Hour

Plans for certain Suva Gov rnment offices, notably the Post office, to remain open in i hat is looked upon as Suva’s inch hour, might well represent ie first moves in easing the lad traffic rush that takes place i that city at about 1 p.m. and gain at about 2 p.m.

The Government offices are > remain open, on an experi lental basis, for three months, for the convenience of the üblic who are working at other usiness hours,” but the effect f the move could institute a znsible staggering of the lunch our in all Government offices nd business houses. Not only i ould the traffic jam be avoided ut the anomaly of the long loming—most Islands people re early risers—and the short fternoon, would be done away nth.

Some offices and businesses Iready do close at noon, but the ast majority join the 1 p.m. tampede, when Suva is virtually attened down for an hour with ardly a sight of man or dog

i its streets at 1.30 p.m.-

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