Fijian Police On

Alert

Canadians in Trouble in Suva

From Our Own Correspondent

Suva, Feb. 17.

A FIJIAN Post Office employee who chased a Canadian sailor after the Canadian had smashed a window of Widdowson’s jewellery shop was warmly praised by the Magistrate at the conclu sion of a recent court case.

The Canadian went to gaol.

Another Canadian sailor, illegally busy in a hatch of his ship at 2 o’clock one morning last week, had not allowed for the excellent ears of a Fijian wharf labourer.

Result: When the sailor heaved up a case containing 12 bottles of brandy, he unintentionally heaved it into the hands of the chief officer, grimly waiting at the top. The sailor was given four months’ hard labour.

It was another Fijian, a police sergeant, who arrested three sailors (not Cana dians) who had appropriated a car out side the Town Hall. The drive lasted only 100 yards and cost the visitors £3 each in fines.

Another Canadian who walked out of a shop with a sun-hat for which payment had been overlooked, was briskly pursued by a shop-assistant and was ultimately bagged by a Fijian corporal when blandly wearing the hat in a hotel bar. He was fined £5.

When a ship with a Canadian crew comes in, Suva’s instinct nowadays is to batten up and take cover.

EDITORIAL NOTE: What a welcome would be given to a few score of these Fijian policemen in Australia and New Zealand, which are literally being over run by thieves!