Future Role Of Fijian

Troops

WHEN he was on leave in New Zealand in January, Brigadier G. Dittmer, commanding officer of the Fiji Mili tary Forces, indicated that the First and Third Battalions were being re-organised in Fiji for further service in the Pacific.

The new role of the force would be decided by the War Office, after consul tation with the Fijian authorities. The FMF, Brigadier Dittmer said, was at present organised on a brigade basis, with dock companies supplying labour for the loading and unloading of ships. It was possible that in future the force would be organised as an infantry brigade in which case the supporting arms and services would be provided by the formation to which it was attached.

Brigadier Dittmer is on loan to the FMF from the New Zealand Staff Corps.

He was in the Middle East with the NZEF in command of the Maori Battalion.

Bishop E. N. Wilton, at one time Assistant Bishop of Melanesia, has been a patient at St. Luke’s Hospital, Sydney,