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

Anti-Tb Campaign

p. 68 · Read in the full issue

Urged In Fiji

SUVA, March 28.

FOR several weeks the demand for an anti-tuberculosis campaign on a national scale in Fiji, has been grow ing. Fijians want to finance it by means of an all-Fijian co-operative fund.

Mr. B. B. Browne, of Levuka, has sounded out Government circles in con nection with a scheme for an anti-TB lottery. This idea, however, is opposed in certain mission circles; and the Rev.

A. R. Tippett, of the Methodist Mission, has stirred up the Philatelic Society of Fiji to sponsor a proposal for health stamps on the lines adopted in New Zea land.