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t fered. He also spoke of the need to have a
new mindset to reforms taking place in the
civil service and assured his staff that he
was not working to undermine the King.

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was a combined staff meeting and prayer was a journalist with the local television Sara Vafoou
service, and when it concluded, ‘Akilisi station. A complaint was lodged with the
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Kundan Singh Supermarket – Arts Village, Pacific
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Post of the month: Kundan Singh Supermarket – Tamavua, Suva, Fiji
Lami Pharmacy – Main Street, Lami
Methodist Bookstore – Stewart Street, Suva, Fiji
MHCC – Suva, Fiji
Nausori Airport Bookshop – Nausori
Samabula Drugstore – Samabula, Suva, Fiji
Sanatan Bookshop - Tebara Shopping Complex
Suva Bookshop – Downtown Boulevard, Suva, Fiji
Tappoo outlets – Fijiwide
Textbook Wholesalers – BSP Centre Suva, Fiji
Total Lami - Lami Town
Total Lautoka - Vitogo Parade
USP Bookcentre – USP, Laucala Campus, Suva, Fiji

Boroko Foodworld – Boroko, PNG
Friendly Islands Bookshop – Nuku’alofa, Tonga
Hachette Pacifique – Papeete, French Polynesia
National Stationery Supplies – Honiara, Solomon
Islands
Nouvelle Messageries Caledoniennes de Presse –
Noumea, New Caledonia
Pacific & Occidental Capelle & Partners – Yaren,
Nauru
Pacific Supplies – Rarotonga, Cook Island
Robert Reimers Enterprises – Majuro, Marshall
Islands
South Seas Traders – Alofi, Niue
Stop Press – Port Vila, Vanuatu
Yap Cooperative Association – Colonia, YAP, FSM

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