Fiji Resident Killed At

Balikpapan

TI7HILE serving with the Australian ff Forces in Balikpapan in July, Cap tain Bob Chapman, a former resi dent of Fiji, was killed in action.

He went to Suva in 1938 as a member of the staff of the Bank of New South Wales, and imediately identified himself with the Colony’s sporting life. He was manager of the Fiji hockey team which had such a successful tour in New Zea land in 1939.

He left Fiji in 1940 to enlist with the

Australian Forces as a gunner in the field artillery.

He went through the Middle East cam paigns, and was commissioned, and re turned when the Australians were recalled for fighting in New Guinea. He had only recently been promoted to the rank of captain.

Mr. Crayton Burns, nephew of Sir Maynard Hedstrom, visited Fiji in July, en route to Australia from the United States, where he was an Australian press correspondent at the San Francisco Con ference.