Lussick-Bot2 Wedding
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Population trends in Tahiti are shown by the latest published birth statistics.
In the last quarter of 1947, of the 148 babies born, 79 were Tahitian, 32 Chinese, 31 half-caste and 5 French. In the same period there were 46 deaths and 24 mar riages.
In future the Central Leper Hospital at Makogai, Fiji, will be referred to as the Fiji Leprosy Hospital. This follows a decision made at the recent Inter national Leprosy Conference in Havana that “leprosy patient” should replace the name “leper.”
Suva Yacht Club now has 11 boats of the New Zealand “Idlealong” type and has held one-class races for the first time. "Vagabond” (J. St. Julian) won the first three of a series of five races for the Wright Barometer, * * The proposed Fiji Rugby tour of Auck land Province which was to have taken place in September has been cancelled.
No transport to New Zealand was avail able for the team.
A photograph taken at the wedding on December 5 last of Miss Priscilla Botz, second daughter of Mr, and Mrs. J. C. Botz, of Vancouver, Canada, to Mr, Walter Lussick, eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. A. N. Lussick. now of Sydney, and late of Kavieng, New Guinea.