Successful Sports Meeting Held At Tavua Goldfield, Fiji

A CROWD of 2,000 Fijians and many European residents of the Tavua Dis trict, Fiji, were present at the Vatukoula Sports Meeting held recently at Tavua for the native employees of Loloma and Emperor goldmines.

The photographs at left show: Top.— A general view of the sports meeting; the crowd watching the runners on their marks at the start of a heat in the 120 yards handicap. Lower.—The Manage ment Committee which was responsible for the success of the meeting. Mr. E.

G. TheoUore, formerly a Minister in the Australian Parliament, who now is the leading figure in the Fiji goldmining in dustry, is standing, bare-headed, in the centre of the group. On his left is Miss Theodore, with Miss Raine on the other side.

Mr. Eric Ramsden, secretary of the Pacific Islands Club in Sydney, spoke on “’Tahiti” before the Geographical So ciety of New South Wales on October 10.

Mr. R. W. Gosset, who presided, is a former resident of Rarotonga. Mr.

Ramsden’s second book, the first bio graphy of James Busby, British Resid ent at the Bay of Islands 1833-40, will be published by Angus and Robertson in Sydney before the end of the year. It is dedicated to Professor Peter H. Buck, and Lord Bledisloe, former Governor- General of New Zealand, has written the introduction.

Nurse F. A. Gaby, who recently joined the Methodist Mission, has now taken up duties at the Indian hospital, Ba, Fiji.

Mr. H. W. Simmonds, formerly entomologist for the Fiji Government, passed through Sydney in mid-October on his return journey to Suva from Madagascar, where he collected parasitic insects.

The small vessel “Patonga”, which has been engaged in the Australian timber trade, has been purchased by Mr. A.

Hagen, well-known Noumea merchant, for use in New Caledonia