Lend-Lease In Reverse In

Fiji

FRESH foods, such as bananas, paw paws, pineapples, sweet potatoes, pumpkins and corn, which are sup plied to US forces in the Colony of Fiji, have reversed lend-lease aid from the United States to the tune of three million dollars. The producers are paid by the British Government and the food is handed over free to the American troops.

Captain Frank Williams, who has spent a lifetime in the waters around Fiji, where he is regarded as the Group’s most experienced pilot, has been appointed an Honorary Colonel in the Fijian Labour Corps. During late years he has had much to do with stevedoring. In World War I he went overseas in charge of thf Fijian Labour Corps.