Between 1882 and 1889 Sir Virgile Naz gathered support from the inhabitants of the village of Curepipe to create the Board des Commissaires de Curepipe with the goal of solving civil problems caused by the rapid development of the new village which had been founded in 1878.
The Board commissioned a network of 80 asphalted roads, built a bridge, drains, public gardens, nursery at Bois et Fôret, new Carnegie Library, a slaughter house, Cité Pitot and Salaffa Shopping Centre.
[3] Naz formed part of the pro-Hennessy Reform Party (also known as The Oligarchs) of Sir William Newton (Mauritius).
Their main rivals formed part of the anti-Hennessy party Democrats which was led by Gustave de Coriolis and Onésipho Beaugeard.
It was following Sir Virgile Naz's recommendation that Governor John Pope Hennessy nominated Gnanadicarayen Arlanda as the first Indo-Mauritian to serve as member of the Legislative Council in 1886.