FIJIAN APPOINTMENT
ADVISER ON NATIVE AFFAIRS (Rec. 9 p.m.) RUGBY, May 31. The Secretary of State for the Colonies, Mr Oliver Stanley, approved the appointment of Ratu (Chief) J. L. V. Sukuna as adviser on native affairs in Fiji. , . , . ... Ratu Sukuna was educated at Wanganui and Wadham College, Oxford. He joined the Foreign Legion in the last war and went to France. He returned to Oxford after the war and was subsequently called to the Bar. He is the first Fijian to be appointed district commissioner.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25241, 2 June 1943, Page 2
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