15 Fijians Lost At Sea
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FIFTEEN Fijian men and women lost their lives on August 11, when a small sailing boat, which was tak ing 27 of them from Lautoka to a small island off the coast, was swamped by heavy seas. All of them managed to cling to the overturned boat from noon until 2 o’clock next morning, but then the boat began to break up.
Six men and six women finally made their way, clinging to small pieces of wreckage, to the small island of Narara.
The rest were seen no more and presum ably were drowned.
M. Robert Kuter, French Resident Com missioner in the New Hebrides, has returned to Vila, after a vacation of some months in Australia. M. Fourcade, a young French-trained but Caledonian born official who came out with the d’Argenlieu Mission, took M. Xuter’s place during his absence, but has now gone to Noumea.
On the occasion of a recent visit to Pearl Harbour, the Governor of Fiji, Sir Philip Mitchell, presented Admiral Nimitz with an album made in the Fiji Govern ment Printing Office by the Government Printer, Mr. F. W. Smith, containing sets of stamps of Fiji and the territories of the Western Pacific High Commission.