Governor Of Fiji On Tour
pp. 65-66 · Read in the full issue
Suva, May 28.
*T , HE new Governor of Fiji, Sir Arthur ■k Richards, since his arrival last November, has visited most of the group.
Recently he made an extensive tour of the main centres of Vanua Levu (visiting Savu Savu, Nabouwalu, Naduri, Labasa and Yanawai), and at all places he was cordially received.
Residents appreciate His Excellency’s energy in making these trips at consider able personal inconvenience, seeing that the Government yacht Pioneer is laid up indefinitely and likely to be scrapped.
His Excellency is away now from Suva on a visit to the Lau group, in the small steamer Malake. He has taken a large party of Government officials with him.
He called at the Makogai leper station on the way out, and will call also at Kadavu.
Miss Hilda Taylor, who is in charge of the Jasper Williams’ Boarding School for Indian children at Lautoka, Fiji, sailed from Sydney by the Monowai on June 10 for Fiji.
Mr. H. H. Stinear, a geologist from New Zealand, left by the Macdhui on June 5 to join the staff of Islands Exploration Ltd. in Papua.