Fiji War Fund Allocations
pp. 27-28 · Read in the full issue
THE Fiji War Fund Board has now closed the fund with the following final distributions: Benevolent Fund of the Fiji Returned Sailors’ and Soldiers Association, £5,000; Earl Haigs’ Poppy Day Appeal. £1.000; Lady Grantham’s Fiji Gifts to Britain Fund. £7,768; Lord Mayor of London’s Flood Distress Fund, £7,768.
In addition there is £833/13/1 speci fically allocated by the donors to be used for the armed forces of Fiji only. Of tHs £5OO will go to the Fiji Military Forces Canteen Fund and £333/13/1 to the FiJ Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Canteen Fund and will be used when the military and naVal units of the Colony are estab lished an a ijeaoetime basis.
A sea-plane left Sydney on May 21, for Port Moresby carrying meat and other fresh food for the town which was, as usual, short of supplies.
Mrs. F. H. Mclver entertained a number of friends at a dinner party at her home in Coorparoo, Brisbane, recently in honour of the engagement of her daughter Maureen Mclver to Mr. Pat McNeill. Mr.
McNeill lives in Lae, (NG).