Water For Australia
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Major A. C. Swinbourne, The New
president of the Pacific islands Society (Sydney) is putting life and interest into the monthly meetings of that body. At the meeting on March 26, Mr.
Michael Sawtell outlined the ambitious plan under which it is proposed to collect the enormous rainfall of north-eastern Queensland, and turn it back over the coastal ranges into the drv interior of Australia.
Visitors included Mr. and Mrs. Hubert Sabben, late of Fiji; Mr. and Mrs. B.‘C.
Cartland, who are proceeding to the Gil bert Islands, from Nigeria; and Mr. Du Faur. The latter expressed the opinion that water could be brought across Torres Strait, into arid Australia, from the Fly River region of Papua.
The Fiji ex-Servicemen’s visiting com mittee, which is appointed by the Gov ernor to attend, to the welfare of ex-Ser vicemen in hospital, has been reconsti tuted. The members of the new com mittee are Mr. C. S. Reay (chairman), Lady Maraia, Mr. C. R. Came, Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Lester, Mr. Noel Levy, Ratu Edward Matatini and Mr. G. McEwan.