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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 April 1949Vol. XIX, No. 9

Eight British Scholarships

p. 27 · Read in the full issue

For Fiji

EIGHT scholarships have been awarded to young men and women from Fiji under the British Government’s Colonial Development and Welfare Scholarship Scheme to help people of the Colonies to fit themselves for appoint ment to the higher grades of the Govern ment service. They are:— RODNEY V. COLE (Queensland Unl veristy), a son of Mr. and Mrs. R. V, Cole, of Suva; R. NIGEL COSTER (Canterbury Agri cultural College, NZ), a son of Mr. and Mrs. S. E. H. Coster, of Suva; SEMESO K. SIKIVOU (a BA of Auck land University and now on the staff of Queen Victoria School); JOHN W. PARHAM (Auckland Univer sity College), a son of Mr. and Mrs. B.

E. V. Parham, of Suva; GEORGE P. WARING (Undertaking a course for membership of New Zealand Institute of Surveyors), a son of Mr. and Mrs. W. M. P. Waring, of Sigatoka;

Simione Matanitobua, Who Will

complete a BA degree course at Canter bury University College, NZ; EVERARD H. WILSON (who will take the BSc. degree course in Civil Engineer ing at Auckland University College), a son of Mr. and Mrs. G. R. Wilson, of Suva; MISS MARGOT L. REAY (who will take a two-year course to complete her Bachelor of Home Science degree at Otago University and a one-year Social Welfare Course in the United Kingdom), a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. S. deC. Reay.