Fiji's Coronation

Representatives

From Our Own Correspondent

Suva, Jan. 30.

purs official representatives at the -*• Coronation will be the Hon. Sir Henry Scott, K.C., M.L.C., and Hon. Ratu J. L.

V. Sukuna, M.L.C.

Major C. A. B. Joske, 0.8. E., M.C., E.D.. and Second Lieutenant Ratu Edward T.

Cakobau, will represent the Fiji Defence Force as a military delegation.

Sir Henry and Lady Scott are travel ling Home via Canada, but the other three representatives will leave Suva by the Niagara on March 5, and join a P. and 0. liner leaving Sydney on March 13.

Sir Henry Scott has a long record of public service to his credit in Fiji, hav ing been a member of the Legislative Council for many years, as well as occu pying the Mayoral chair in the days of the old Municipal Council for several terms.

Ratu Sukuna is one of the best known chiefs of the Colony, having been a nomi nated member of the Legislative for some years. He was educated at Wanganui Collegiate School, New Zealand, and at Oxford University, where he took the degree of Bachelor of Arts. He is also a Barrister at Law. and at present is a District Commissioner in the Fiji Gov ernment service- He served in the French Foreign Legion during part of the war, and won the Medaille Militalre.

Major C. A. B. Joske, managing direc tor of the old established firm of Brown and Joske Ltd., recently taken over by W. R. Carpenter and Co-, is a well-known Fiji resident. He is at present acting Commandant of the Fiji Defence Force, and was recently awarded the Efficiency Decoration for 20 years’ commissioned service in the Force.

Ratu Edward Cakobau is one of the younger chiefs of the Colony, and is also a blood relation of the royal house of Tonga. He was educated at Wanganui Technical College and at the Auckland Training College. For some years he was attached to the local Education Depart ment, and is at present a clerk in the Native Affairs Department.