Fijian Takes Charge of London Traffic

London Traffic

A NATIVE member of the Fiji Police, Vilise Nadaku, while in London with the Victory Contingent, was shown the organisation and establishments of the London Police; and, one day, was taken to the manually operated traffic lights in Kensington High Street.

The constable on duty explained the working of the signals and gave a five minutes’ demonstration.

Vilise then went into the control hut alone and for the next 20 minutes took charge of the signals. “Traffic was run ning heavily at the time but, to his credit, he manipulated the traffic as well as any of my own men,” said a police inspector.

The surprising sight of traffic control by a Fijian corporal in the busy Ken sington High Street, at eleven in the morning, was noticed by many vehicle drivers and passengers, including some German prisoners in lorries.

Rev. N. C. Watt. M. A., who was recently inducted in Brisbane as presi dent of the Queensland Conrega.tional Union was, before the war, attached to the London Missionary Society at Port Moresby for 15 months. He was in charge there of the Native Educational Centre.

Mrs. Charles Bates, who has been living in Melbourne, Vic., during the evacuation period recently left there and has now rejoined her husband in Rabaul.

The Queensland Government recently approved of the purchase of a trawler, at

£6,000, for carrying passengers and cargo for the Island Industries Board in the Torres Strait area, it is 62ft. long and its 225 h.p. diesel engine gives a range of 1,500 miles. It will carry 12 passengers and 50 tons of cargo, and will replace four luggers formerly used on this

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