Near-Miss For Tea Party
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Prom Our Own Correspondent SUVA, October 11.
A BIG Fijian bure at Sigatoka, where most of the important social and other gatherings of the Nadroga dis trict were held, recently flopped to the ground without warning.
If this calamity had occurred 24 hours earlier, the enormous roof-timbers would have crashed on a Church of England Ladies’ Guild tea-party.
As it was, tables, crockery and forms
were smashed to fragments and Lawaqa Tennis Club members and other Euro peans are now collecting funds for re placements.
It will cost £4O to rebuild the bure, to wards which cost the Government says it will give £2O and not a penny more, Mr. J. M. Brennan, who has been a Magistrate in Fiji for nine months, has returned to Sydney to resume his legal practice. During his stay in the Colony Mr. Brennan occupied the bench at Suva, Nausori, Navua, Labasa and other centres.