Phenomenal Seasons

FIJI is having a particularly dry season, and Suva residents again have been urged to restrict their consumption of water. It was pointed out in “Fiji Times” that there is scope for reduction in the 80 gallons per head that Suva uses each day, when one considers that in a recent water shortage in Auckland, resi dents were restricted to 8 gallons per head per day.

Our Tahiti correspondent, on the other hand, reports that the rain of the wet season has been phenomenally heavy and prolonged—there were heavy rains in June, long after the dry, cool season

customarily starts.

The Rev. Samuela Matainivalu, a Fijian minister of the Methodist Overseas Mis sion, has been appointed chaplain to the Fiji Military Forces.