Fijian Crew

For a WRC Ship

A PARTY of 26 Fijians left Fiji re cently to take up their duties as crew in an overseas ship, owned by the Carpenter Line (says “Fiji Times”).

They include deck hands, boatswain, greasers, and two cooks and their pav will be based on rates ruling in F'iji. They will replace a Chinese and Malayan crew who were in the ship on her arrival in Sydney from overseas. Fijians have from time to time been employed in ships go ing overseas and have proved excellent hands, quite equal to Europeans or others.