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Patience in Fiji

MAKING a vivid splash of scarlet, white and blue on the smoothly-grassed sweep of the parade ground at the picturesque Nasova Police Depot, Suva, a detachment of the Fiji Police and the Band of the Fiji Military Forces paraded for Mr. Ron Horner, Cinesound camera man, who is filming and recording Fiji for the benefit of Australia.

But as soon as everything was ready the sun disappeared, taking with it all

the hght-and-shadow that gives treesheltered Nasova half its rtiarm. And when the sun came out again every bird m Nasova burse into songs of praise—that sounded like nothing on earth on the sound-track.

A Fijian sergeant-major, with rifle and

blank cartridges, set to work to scare the birds away. But he also scared all the babies in the Married Quarters who roared in unison.

This sort of thing seemed likelv to go on indefinitely. But bv the end of the morning the job was “in the can.”