"Race" Bill
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Cook Islands
Becomes Law
The Cook Islands controversial Entry and Departure Amendment Bill became law in March. Under it, anybody not at least 50 per cent.
Polynesian can be deported by the executive council if “he has been conducting himself in a manner that is undesirable, having regard to the attitudes, standards or requirements of the community”. Non-Cook Islanders are not protected from this order by reason of permanent citi zenship.
Government members in debate said that “aged citizens had nothing to fear”, and the Premier, Mr.
Albert Henry, said he “would not use the new law to get rid of poli tical opponents”. He would use it to get rid of two particular men, and the immigration laws would be revised with the opening of the international airport in 1972.
In Rarotonga’s High Court on March 16, Michael Swift, 32, an Englishman who has lived in the Cooks for four years and who spent nearly 10 months as a “hermit” on
MacARTHUR RETURNS. General Douglas MacArthur, World War II military com mander in the SW Pacific, "returned" re cently on this US stamp marking the 91st anniversary of his birth, and currently circulating in US Pacific territories. He is buried in Virginia.
guiTty rr to charged on the same day with hav ing marijuana in his possession and will B ao W to ß trial nn and will go to trial on April 29.
Tenders for the first stage of the reconstruction of Fiji’s Nadi-Suva road may be called in September, according to the latest official statement on the continuing saga. relatin W g e 'io r ’the central 1 relating to the central portion of the cenfra^ r< no t^° rot ° 8a *° D euba. “The It t P ortlon *••• 18 , not tp be let yet as me economic return does not . p f eBen f meet the World Bank Cri -r r I a i ’ the statem^ nt said total reconstruction of the road nas been estimated at sl3i million.
The Fiji Government hopes to borrow about SlO million of this from the bank to which it has applied for membership.
Because of delays, caused by land acquisition, new notices of intention to call for tenders were being issued. inese were going through diplomatic channels to World Bank mem- Per countries and to Switzerland. This was a requirement of the bank, which nad invited the government to apply tor a loan.