Csr Employee Killed
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By Lightning
DURING a storm at Nadi, Fiji, in early January, Mr. K. Parker, a young field officer of the CSR Company was struck by lightning and was fatally injured. Mr. Parker was on horseback when the accident occurred and his horse was also killed by the lightning flash.
Mr. Parker, who was 24 years of age, was a graduate of Hawksbury College, New South Wales. For four years he was an assistant field officer at the Drasa trainnig farm Fiji, and recently was stationed at the Navakai estate.
Colonel Migeon, director of civil avia tion in New Caledonia, who through the war was an ardent de Gaulliste, attended the Conference on Civil Aviation in Mel bourne in February as head of the French delegation.
Nadi, Fiji, which was a large American base during the war, and is close to Fiji’s international airport of the same name, is now officially a township, a proclamation creating the township, appeared in a Royal Gazette in January. The chairman of the first Township Board is Mr. J. S. M.
Park, and the members of the Board are: The District Engineer, Lautoka: the Health Inspector, Lautoka; Mr. 'G. L.
Robley; Dr. G. Mukherji; Mr. I. Graham; Mr. Samjee Jadavji; Ratu Rusiate Levula; Buli Nadi and Mr. M. S. Raju.