Nuffield Scholarship To

Fiji Resident

Suva, Dec. 23.

ONE of the five Nuffield Scholarships given this year in the whole of the Colonial Empire has come to Fiji.

It has been awarded to Mr. Edgar Wright, son of Mr. and Mrs. Maitland Wright of Suva, and it is to enable him to go to Sydney University to continue chemistry studies there.

Mr. Wright, who is attached to the research and laboratories division of the Department of Agriculture in Fiji, is an old boy of Suva Grammar School.

He comes from a family which has had long and distinguished associations with Fiji. His grandfather, Mr. Georgius Wright, came to the Colony as one of five soldiers recruited in Sydney by the Cakobau Government before Cession in 1874. He served in the Viti Levu cam paigns in the early seventies as an offi cer and after Cession he joined the Colonial Government. He held police and administrative posts until he retired in 1912. For a time after his retire ment he was curator of the Suva Museum.

Edgar Wright’s father, Mr. Maitland Wright, or “Matey” as he is more usually called, enlisted with the Australian Force early in World War 1 and served right through the 1914-18 period.

Mrs. Maitland Wright came from Tonga. Before her marriage she was Miss Boyer. —Fiji Public Relations Office.

Mr. L. Freeman, of Fiji, who joined the NZEF early in the war, and who spent several years in a German prison camp, returned to the Colony recently.