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iAL J okoda > , extensive fires caused of S Mr d % m^ 6 c-^rS 10 rubber Plantation 01 Ml - E - c - Searle. a result of the thick haze which affected visibility at high levels, flying conditions have been dangerous. On October 20, a plane making for the Goi lala Police Camp in the interior, with passengers and cargo, was forced back OW i n S to the impossibility of finding the landing ground.

There are fears that natives living in the more remote districts, especially in the grasslands, have suffered severely through the fires, -- ™ , Mr - Harry Morton, a retired plumber, , who had lived in Fi j i since 1910 > col la P sed and died in Suva in October. For many years, until he retired because of iU-health, he had been a member of the Suva Fire Brigade and when he heard a fire alarm on the morning of October 7 he left his home to see where it was.

He had gone only a couple of hundred yards along the street when he was seized by a sudden heart attack. A keen follower of football. Mr. Morton had many friends in Rugby Union circles, having played with one of the leading Suva teams from 1914 to 1928 Born in NZ, he was in his 58th year