Kingdom

Sale Of Fiji War Bonds

Large Sums Loaned to United Kingdom

SINCE Fiji war bonds were first offered for sale about last September, two large sums have been made avail able for the war effort: £216,000 has been paid to the Reciprocal Aid Officer in Fiji, on behalf of the government of the United Kingdom; and a further sum of £47,000 has been paid towards Reciprocal Aid expenses incurred in the territories under the control of the Western Pacific High Commission. Thgce amounts repre sent loans to Britain by the purchasers of the war bonds.

There are two series of bonds: “A” series, each of which costs £100; and “B” series, which cost £5. Interest is 2\ per cent, and is payable half-yearly. The bonds are redeemable in 1951. Bonds may be purchased through the Treasury Department in Suva, at the Government

Savings Bank, and at all branches of the Banks of New South Wales and New Zealand.

Monsieur Olivier Jean Iker, of New Caledonia, recently heard through the Australian Red Cross, who had made inquiries through Geneva, that his three children who were in Paris at the time of the German occupation, are safe —and “as well as children can be these days in occupied Paris.”

Captain L. C. Ingle, of the New Guinea Coastal Small Boats Service, who was in hospital in Australia for a time, has now recovered and is returning to New Guinea. Captain Ingle was closely asso ciated, for a considerable time, with Captain L. Henderson, who recently was decorated for his services in piloting small ships along the north-east coast of Papua during the Buna-Gona advance.

Both men were commended for dis tinguished service.