Two Indians Killed in Fiji
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Train Smash
From Our Own Correspondent SUVA, July 16.
AN Indian farmer and his wife were killed at Vuo (Labasa) early this week, in a train accident caused by 33 trucks breaking away when travelling up a steep incline, on the CSR railway.
The cane trucks ran backwards and crashed into the engine of another cane train, derailing 11 trucks. The two Indians were riding on one of the back trucks. Another Indian and two child ren were seriously injured.
There are about 450 miles of light rail way in Fiji, owned and operated by the Colonial Sugar Refining Co., and, on most lines, Indian and native passengers are allowed to travel free of charge.
The three sons of Major-General Sir Charles Rosenthal, KCB, CMG, DSO, VI), who has been Administrator of Norfolk Island since 1937, are serving with the
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Among a party of Tahitian soldiers undergoing medical treatment at Prince Henry Hospital, Little Bay, Sydney, is Corporal Victor Salmon, a grandson of the chief Tati Salmon, of Papara, who entertained Robert Louis Stevenson when he visited Tahiti in the 80’s. He, of course, is a great-grandson of Arii taimai, head of the once powerful Teva clan and Marama of Moorea, who mar ried Alexander Salmon, the son of a London banker. Arii-taimai was the foster sister of Queen Pomare IV, and a woman of the highest rank. It was for Arii-taimai that the Queen permitted the regulation against the marriage of Tahitian women and foreigners to be raised for a week, so that she might marry Salmon.