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Pacific Islands Monthly, 19 July 1948Vol. XVIII, No. 12

Six Fijians Try To Live

p. 60 · Read in the full issue

On 33/- Per Week

From Our Own Correipondent HOW can a young Fijian, employed by a Suva firm, support himself, his widowed mother, and four sisters and brothers on a wage of £l/13/- a week? This was not revealed at the Magistrate’s Court recently when the man was charged with the theft of a package of cigarette papers from his firm.

He pleaded guilty and was fined £B, in default two months’ imprisonment.

Pastor and Mrs. lan Kleinig joined the Lutheran Mission, Rooke Is., NG, in June.