Pacific Islands Monthly
The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930
Pacific Islands Monthly, 19 January 1948Vol. XVIII, No. 6

Fiji's Gift To The Princess

p. 40 · Read in the full issue

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rE total subscribed to the Princess Elizabeth wedding gift fund in Fiji was £1,533 of which a large pro portion was given by native Fijians.

Oiginally it was intended to collect about £6OO sterling and to send the princess and her husband a trinket box and a double clip hibiscus brooch, both of Fiji gold.

The surplus, after these gifts are pro vided for, will now be sent to charities selected by Princess Elizabeth.

Mr. and Mrs. F. Godson, of Port Moresby, are at present in Sydney. Mr.

Godson is an inmate of the Wahroonga Sanatorium, recovering from the effects of a serious illness. They hope to re turn to the Territory in February.

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