Pure Fiction!
pp. 19-20 · Read in the full issue
NORFOLK Islanders, who are known to safeguard jealously the secrets of the past, were set by the ears recently when they read a short story in a Sydney magazine under the name of a well-known Australian writer. The author recounted how he had landed on the island, and interviewed one of the Pitcairn descendants who showed him what purported to be a journal written by an old NX convict. The document, she declared, had never before been shown to a visitor. When the story was published, the writer received a letter from a Norfolk Islander asking for more particulars. All the old women had been approached on this matter, he said, and not one admitted possession of the original document. This, of course, was true as the published story was pure fiction!—“Vakatini”.
Mr. B. W t . Taylor, Headmaster of Pro vincial Schools in Fiji, is at present on lon g leave prior to retirement. He has ser ved in the Colony’s Education Depart ment since 1924.
Sister M. G. Moore, formerly of the Colonial War Memorial Hospital. Suva, Fiji, now is in the NZ Army Nursing Service. After taking part in the evacuation from Greece, she returned to New Zealand for a short furlough. She now has gone back to the Middle East for further service.
A wedding of interest was celebrated at Fiji, recently, when Mr. Ross C.
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Barolay of Sydney, waf mar'ried by the District Commissioner to Miss Marguerite R. Mulholland, daughter of the late Rev. H. C. Mulholland and Mrs.
Mulholland, Northern Ireland. Mr. Barclay is an engineer on the staff of the CSR at Labasa.
Mr. Les Bell, of Kavieng, New Guinea, who recently enlisted in the RAAF, “snapped” in a Sydney street with his wife.