Fiji Indians Celebrate National
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From Our Own Correspondent SUVA. August 16.
THE first anniversary of the establish ment of the Dominions of India and Pakistan was celebrated by the Indian population of Fiji on August 15, with a hurricane of Indian flag-hoisting and waving.
Generally, the Muslim organisations were meticulous in hoisting the Union Jack beside the Pakistan flag, as have a few Hindu bodies. But proportionately the Union Jacks (like the Muslims) were in a small minority.
The Indian Commissioner Designate for Fiji (Mr. S. A. Waiz) sent a Dominion Day message to the Fiji Indians stress ing the bonds between them and their motherland.
Master R. Suresh Chand, Indian School, Navua, Fiji, is an Indian schoolboy seek ing a pen friend in Australia. He may be written to at that address.