Bride-ship
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FIJI, too, has had her bride-ship. Re cently, on its voyage between Aus tralia and America, a ship called briefly at Suva and picked up a number of brides and fiancees of American Ser vicemen who will now make their homes in the States.
The romances began when US Service men were stationed in the Colony in 1942-43.
Dr. €. M. Dawson, who formerly was chief medical officer in Western Samoa and Tonga, recently passed through Apia en route to Niue where he will relieve Dr. E. Hunt, who has resigned from the medical service because of ill-health.
Miss Athol Evelyn Leaver, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Leaver, of Suva, Fiji, married Sgt. Q. R. Purser, NZEF, in St.
Andrew’s Church, Suva, on June 14.