Centralising Fiji's

Provincial Schools

From Our Own Correspondent

Suva, May 9.

MR. L. N. BRADLEY, of Christchurch and Wanganui, New Zealand, has been appointed principal of Ratu Kadavulevu School, which is being estab lished as an intermediate school for Fijian boys at Lodoni. The school occu pies a site which incorporates the former Provincial School, Eastern plus an area made available to the school by Fijian villagers who moved their homes for this purpose.

Ratu Kadavulevu School will be a “feeder” for Queen Victoria School, the only Fijian secondary school ,and will draw students from all parts of the Group.

Queen Victoria School was emptied out of its home at Nasinu—where it had been established as part of the Fijian com memoration of Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee (1887)—when the buildings were requisitioned during the war. After be ing used later as a temporary tuberculosis hospital, it became the Government Teachers’ Training College.

Queen Victoria School is now in make shift quarters in north-eastern Viti Levu, but an official statement says that “it is hoped” that the school will ultimately be housed at Matavatucou, a few miles from Ratu Kadavulevu School.

An intermediate school for Fijian girls is being established at Sawani, on the site of the former Provincial School, South ern. The principal will be Miss Frances Charlton, of Auckland, and the first as sistant Miss E. C. Lound, who was formerly a teacher at the Suva Girls’

Grammar School.