Fiji
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Women's Voluntary Service in Fiji
IT is probable that Fiji might have compulsory national service, stated the new Governor (Major- General Sir Philip Mitchell) in a message to the organisers of the inau gural meeting of the Women’s Volunteer Service in Fiji.
It is. however, in the best interests of the Colony that people should be used in the jobs for which they are best suited; and it is with the object of training for those jobs that the women of Suva met in the Regal Theatre recently and elected Mrs. Newboult, the wife of the newly-arrived Colonial Secretary, to be organiser of the new service.
Mrs. Newboult has had considerable experiences of the “blitzes” in Britain, and she gave the meeting some vivid descriptions of life during the bombing of London and country districts.
Mrs. Elizabeth Teall and Sister R.
Cunnold, of the Melanesian Mission, are in Sydney at present waiting, impatiently, for completion of arrangements for their return to their work in the New Hebrides.