Lautoka

Lautoka is the second biggest town of Fiji. It is within the west of the island of Viti Levu, 24 kilometres north of Nadi and port of entry in Fiji, after Suva. Lying within the heart of Fiji's sugar cane growing place, it's far referred to as the Sugar City. Covering a place of sixteen rectangular kilometres, it had a population of 52,220 on the 2007 census, the maximum latest to date. The call of the city is derived from Fijian phrases which means "spear hit." According to an oral subculture, the call arose following a duel between chiefs. As one speared the opposite, he turned into stated to have cried "Lau-toka".

The first regarded European sighting of the Lautoka vicinity befell on 7 May 1789. Captain William Bligh spotted and kind of charted the coasts of Lautoka even as making his epic voyage to Timor, within the wake of the mutiny at the Bounty. Incorporated as a town in 1929, Lautoka turned into proclaimed a city on 25 February 1977. It is ruled by means of a 16-member city council, who opt for from amongst themselves a mayor. Lautoka presently does now not have a mayor however has a government-appointed administrator like all city centres in Fiji because the military coup of 2006. The former administrator become Parveen Bala, who became additionally mayor of Ba.