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Fiji’S Credit
Unions
The Credit Union League in Fiji has erected a memorial in the village of Togalevu, 11 miles from Suva on the Queen’s Road, to mark the place where the first Credit Union was formed 11 years ago. Below are pictured Credit Union offi cials at the unveiling. Fr.
Marion Ganey, an American missionary, introduced Credit Unions in British Honduras and made them such a success that he interested the then Governor, Sir Ronald Garvey.
When Sir Ronald later became Governor of Fiji he got per mission for Father Ganey to go to Fiji to introduce Credit Unions there—with equal suc cess. Father Ganey stayed on and has now become something of an institution. The work in Fiji is now established well enough to allow him to use Suva as a base for carrying the good word about Credit Unions further afield into the Pacific—including the French islands of Futuna and Wallis, and to Western Samoa. —Art Studio photo.