Donors Predominantly Fijian
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From Our Own Correspondent SUVA, October 27.
WITH a week before the Fund closes, the Fijian community is responsible for no less than £465 of the £578 already collected for a wedding gift to Princess Elizabeth and Lieutenant Phillip Mountbatten. It has been suggested, somewhat acidly, by the “Fiji Times” that the Fijians who, as a group, have the smallest financial resources, are willing to subscribe the objective of £6OO them selves; and that the name of the fund should be changed to “Fijians’ Wedding Gift Fund.” ...
A search of the contribution lists, so far fails to reveal a single Indian group donation. There is still more than a week before the fund closes, but there is also a cynical suspicion that the fact that the names of individuals are not published is a brake on the generosity of the wealthier Indian loyalists.
Miss A. M. Moore of Sydney recently attended the Methodist centenary services in Brisbane, Queensland. She was the daughter of a missionary and was born in Fiji 79 years ago.
Mr. Klein, a New Hebridean business man, has bought, in Sydney, a 50-ton US engine-driven barge for the New Hebrides.
It is about 60 feet long and will reach Vila, via Noumea, under its own power.
The British Consul in Tahiti, Mr.
C F. A. Henderson, reports that a British subject, Mr. E. A. Edwards, DCM, died in the Papeete Hospital on October 11.
The Tahitian administration has made a grant of 3,000,000 francs to the Papeete Municipality for road repairs and for enlarging the town’s famous covered market.
The French Liberty jhip, “Nantes,” is repatriating 250 Indo-Chinese coolies from New Caledonia and 350 from the New Hebrides. She is bound for Saigon.