Fijians Farewell Their Co

MEN of his battalion recently fare welled Lieut.-Colonel A. B. Ackland, commanding officer of the First Battalion, Fiji Labour Corps. * He was accorded full Fijian cerefnonies and was presented with an engraved tabua, a tortoise-shell cigarette case and an album containing photographs of the Battalion camp and personnel and views of Fiji.

Lieut.-Colonel Ackland left shortly afterwards for England, where he will attend courses in connection with the Land Agency to be set up to deal with native lands in British Colonies. He was accompanied by three Fijians, who will be his assistants on his return.