Suva Welcomes Aorangi

From Our Own Correspondent SUVA. August 30. were flying, the band of the 1 FMF was playing, the crowd was waiting, and the factory sirens were hooting when the liner Aorangi, from Sydney and Auckland, arrived at Suva at 7 a.m. on August 28.

Main attraction for the passengers was a hibiscus show staged by women men bers of the Holy Trinity Pro-Cathedral congregation. The arrangement of the display, which included waterlilies, frangi °ingerettas, gerberas, crotons, etc., as well as hibiscus of every variety and shade, equalled the famous Suva shows of pre-war days.

An enormous crowd fare,,the ship at 5 p.m. when she sailed for M. • For some curiously emotional reason/ this return of the British Red Ensign to the Pacific service brought forth Suva’s most demonstrative outburst of patriot ism since the war.