FIJI'S FINANCES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 32, 8 February 1939, Page 6

FIJI'S FINANCES.

REVENUE SHOWS INCREASE. STUD CATTLE IMPORTED. (From Our Own Correspondent.) SUVA, January 31. The revenue of the colony for the nine months ended September 30 was £6*7,694, ae against £635,400 for the same peHod of 1937. Expenditure for th« period was £647,638 in 1938, agaittet £586,938 in 1*937. Customs revenue for l!>38 was £490,554, againet an estimate of £480,300, an increase of £4254. Import duties ehovv an increase Of £1918. The death occurred suddenly at Xadi of Mr. Frank Waddingham, at the age of 72 yearn. Mr. Waddingham. who was borfl in Attcklahd, came to Fiji as a carpenter iiimnediately after the l>ig fire in Suva in 1888, and undertook the rebuilding of the premises of A. M. Brodrtlftk and Company. After that lie went to the Ba Rivef, and up to 10 yearn ajro ■wae contracting for the Colonial Sugar Refining Company. He then took up land At Nadi and dirf .cane planting for the oompahy, Mr. Waddingham is survived by h!e Wife, six eons and four daughters. An Indian, Canpat Sinsrh, was fined £100 dy the Chief Police MafHEtrate today on A chnfpe of being in posneeeion of utensils for distilling. Default was fljtert at four months' imprisonment. Defendant pleaded guilty. Tlio Limerick, from Sydney, bfought a valuable consignment of stud cattle. wnstetinjj of 12 Red Pnll hrifem in ralf. and a yeerlinir Red Poll bull. These rfcttte cotne ffom the .famous Haddon Rijf Stud, of Warren, Xew Sotith Wales, and ftr* from cattle originally imported to Australia from the King's stud at Pandringham. England. They were imported by Mr. ,T. P. BaylV, of Rnrtiknlii Estate. Sigatoka. where he proposes to .establish a hiffh-claes stud to breed purebred bulls for his own herd.

The rainfall in Suva for January totalled 30.71 inches, vjioli is IS.S3 inches in excess of the averatre for the month for the last 55 years. There were 27 wet titty", the heaviest fall in one dav bein|r 5.78 inches on January id.