Available Shortly

Harold Cooper's Book

AMONG the Ministry of Information publications which are expected to be available for sale to the public shortly is a book, by Harold Cooper, Infor mation Officer, Fiji and Western Pacific, which tells the story of the exploits of British Colonial Civil Servants, planters, missionaries and Island residents of all races during the campaigns in the Gil berts and Solomons.

Three chapters of the book deal with the part played in the fighting on Guadal canal, New Georgia and Bougainville by the Fiji Commandos and the First and Third Battalions of the Fiji Infantry Regiment.

The book will be illustrated by numer ous photographs, many of them taken by Rob Wright, of the Information Office, Suva.

Two extracts from the book have appeared as articles in the “PIM.”