Fijians' Success With Western Music
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Western Music
From Our Own Correspondent
Suva, Dec. 4.
rE all-Fijian Band of the Fiji Military Forces is developing into an excellent musical combination, and its Sun day evening concerts, once a month (when the Suva climate permits) at the Boys’ Grammar School grounds attract steadily-increasing crowds of Europeans and Fijians. (Indians for once are in a minority because few of them care for Western music.i Starting with an instinctive sense of rhythm and harmony, but with not the haziest notion of music as reduced to printed notes, the band to-day takes any thing from the latest dance tune to grand opera in its stride. The ingredients of progress have been hard work and the patience and enthusiasm of the band master (Lieutenant A. L. Hansard).
The following residents of Australian Territories have been appointed members of the Court of Native Affairs, which has been set up in Papua and New Guinea under the Native Administration Ordi nance of 1938: C. W. Kimmorley; J. B.
Page; L. J. Doolan.
Tenders have been invited in Papua- New Guinea for the conveyance of mails between Port Moresby and Sogeri, three times per week, delivering roadside mail en route; Lae to Bulolo and Wau and re turn, three times per week; Rabaul to Kokopo and return, six times per week.