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The man who will he Fiji's first Chief Minister
Ratu K. K. T. Mara, who will Fiji’s first Chief Minister, is 47, son of Ratu Tevita Uluilakeba, Nayau, who died last year. B Mara is Tui Lau, the paramount c of Lau.
HE was educated in Fiji; Otago Oxford universities and London School of Economics, obtained his MA at Oxford an< diploma in economics in London, is an athletic blue, New Zealand Oxford universities, and cricket athletic blue, Otago University.
He entered the Legislative Cou in 1953 as a Fijian member and occupied various positions in the C ernment service.
The creation of the Alliance P owes much to his inspiration efforts and was obviously influer by his tour of Malaysia a few y ago.
The Alliance Party is similar every way, even to the name, to party which succeeded in uniting various races in Malaya and em ing as victors in the first elect: after independence.
Ratu Mara married Adi Lalabal in 1951 and they have three sons five daughters. He was made officer of the Order of the Bri Empire in 1961.
Ratu Mara