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Fijian School
From Our Own Correspondent
Suva, Oct. 18.
WITH full Masonic rites, the foundation stone of the Peter Murray Practical School for Fijians at Muanicula, Savusavu, Vanua Levu, was laid on Oc tober 9 in the presence of a large gather ing.
For many years Mr. Guy Parr, a teacher with the Fiji Department of Edu cation, dreamed of creating a plantation school for the practical education of Fijians. Officialdom, however, would have none of it. In 1946, Mr. Parr, sponsored by Lodge Polynesia Levuka, started the school which has now been named after an early Savusavu settler.
Lodge members travelled from Levuka to Savusavu in Captain H. M. Frewen’s yacht “Viking Ahoy” (which came to Fiji at the beginning of the year under charter to the “Blue Lagoon” film unit).
After Fijian ceremonies of welcome, the foundation stone was laid by the Right Worshipful Master (Brother R. Kaad).
To further native education in the Gilbert Islands, it is hoped to place 10 Gilbertese at schools and Universities in New Zealand, and 50 in Fiji schools.