Fiji Wants Aeroplanes

For Defence

THERE is no territorial force in Fiji, and Mr. H. B. Gibson. M.L.C., of Fiji, who arrived in Auckland recent ly, told the newspapers there that the continued Pacific activities of Japan made it necessary that the British Gov ernment should take steps to recruit a Fijian airforce. Japanese sampans fre quently appeared in Fijian waters, espe cially on the more remote islands.

Mr. Francis Amos Witherow died in the Colonial War Memorial Hospital, Suva, Fiji, in July, at the age of 78. He was bom in Rewa, and had been an inmate of the Cottage Home for the last 13 years.

Miss Lotus Ellen Sutherland, of Suva, Fiji, was recently married to Mr. Ernest Gordon Jeffries, youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. C. Jeffries, of New Plymouth, New Zealand.