Hedstrom Scholarship

Winner Chosen

THE winner of the first Morris Hedstrom scholarship was announced in Suva in January. (Last year, the share holders of Morris Hedstrom, Ltd., Fiji merchants, set aside a large sum of money, sufficient to provide one scholar ship for a Fijian or part-Fijian student at a New Zealand University.) The 1945 scholarship goes to Raviiama Vunivalu, who is 23, and who has for

the past two years been with the Infor mation Office in Suva.

He started school at the Convent in Levuka, but later attended the Marist Brothers School in Suva and the Metho dist Boys’ School at Toorak. He was in the Native Office until his Information Office appointment.

He is well-known to radio listeners in Fiji—his voice has been heard in the Fiji Harmony Isle programme for a good many years. Recently he has been responsible for these programmes.

He has been editor of the Information Office newspaper, “News from Home,” since its inauguration at the time Fijian troops first went overseas.

Ravuama will enrol for an Arts course at the Auckland University College.

Ravuaraa Vunivalu at work in the broadcasting studio.