Levuka's Wireless School

PRINCIPAL of one of the most unusual schools in the British Colonial Empire is Mr. E. C. Higgins who, in addition to his duties as postmaster of Levuka, Fiji, also supervises Fiji’s School of Wireless Telegraph, at which natives from a variety of Pacific islands are trained as wireless operators Among Mr. Higgins’s pupils in the last few years have been Fijians, Fiji-born Indians, Gilbertese, Ellice Islanders, and Solomon Islanders. Many graduates of his little school gave valuable service to the Allies by operating radio stations on remote island outposts.

Mr. Higgins, a former Dulwich Hill man, is married to a daughter of Mr.

Maurice Reymond, a Swiss national, who was living on the Gilbertese island of Makin when the Japanese invaded the Group. He was a captive of the Japanese for two years, until the American coun ter invasion freed him. Serving with the American Forces which landed on Makin was his own son, Lieut. Bruno Reymond, of the RAN.