Ratu Sukuna
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rE office of vice-president of the Pacific Islands Society has been accepted by Hon. Ratu Josef a Lala balavu Vanaaliali Sukuna, MLC, CBE, of Fiji, one of the most distinguished men of the Central Pacific. Ratu Sukuna wrote: “I very much appreciate the resolution passed by your Society, and I have great pleasure in accepting the office. I regard the resolution as yet another token of that friendly feeling that exists between the Europeans of the South Pacific and the native races of the Islands, including those of Fiji.”
Ratu Sukuna is the son of the late Ratu Madraiwiwi. He was educated at the Wanganui Collegiate School, in New Zealand, and at Wadham College, Ox ford, and became a barrister-at-law of the Middle Temple, London, in 1913.
During the last war he served with the French Foreign Legion, and subsequently was an officer in the Fijian Labour Corps, in France. He was a Fijian representative at the Coronation of King George VI. He has had wide experience as a native administrator in Fiji, and is a member of the Legislative Council.
Mr. J. Bradley, former District Officer in Fiji, is now in the Royal Navy.