Fiji Shows Them How F

A WELL-KNOWN resident of Fiji, Sir Maynard Hedstrom, adopted an ingenious and unusual method of assisting the Fiji Bomber Fund.

The committee in charge arranged a subscription list, divided into five sec tions—namely for £lOO, £5O, £25, £lO and £s—with room for ten names on each section. Sir Maynard announced that he would head and end each list—that is to say, his name would go in the first name-place and, when the next eight places were filled, he would fill the tenth place.

It was virtually a challenge to the people of Fiji, and they could not let it go. In a short time, all the name places were filled, and then Sir Maynard came in with his second lot of donations. That meant that he gave two cheques of £lOO each to the £lOO section; two cheques of £5O each for the £5O section; two cheques of £25 each for the £25 section; two cheques of £lO each to the £lO sec tion; and two cheques of £5 each to the £5 section.

But the other contributors would not leave it there. By the middle of Feb ruary they had carried most of the sec tions far beyond the tenth place—we note from the “Fiji Times” that on Feb ruary 17, 35 people had contributed £lO each to the £lO list, and 53 £5 each to the £5 list.

At the end of February the Bomber Fund had reached £66,000 (Fiji cur rency), which, of course, is in addition to the £5,000 sterling donated by Mr.

S. H. Ellis for a Spitfire fighter.

Gunner Colin Yonge, of the Suva Defence Battery, married Miss Phyllis Gilboy, of Suva, at the Holy Trinity Pro-cathedral, recently.