Fiji's Impressive Gifts To
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War Effort
WHAT the Governor (Sir Harry Luke) called “a truly impressive contribu tion to the Empire’s war effort” is being made by the people of Fiji—Euro peans, Fijians. Indians and Euronesians.
The position, early in November, was:— The Bomber Fund stands at over £61,000; the amount so far remitted to the Red Cross and St. John of Jerusa lem Joint Appeal Fund is £12,610; and there has been subscribed in aid of .the London Air Raid Relief the sum of £1,526.
Amounts have also been allocated by the Fiji War Appeals Board to King George’s Fund for Sailors and to St. Dunstan’s; and there have been private gifts of a fighter ’plane, of money and of garments which do not figure in these totals.
The Great Council of Fijian Chiefs, meeting in Levuka in October for dis cussion of native affairs, voted £2OOO from the Draiba Rest House Fund, for the Fiji Bomber Appeal—a spontaneous and striking gesture.