Rnzaf Again Helps
p. 25 · Read in the full issue
Lau Islands
WHEN a hurricane devastated parts of the Lau Group, Fiji, at the end of 1948, the RNZAF units stationed in the Colony went to the rescue. In a four days’ air-lift they flew in food and medi cal supplies.
Recently the RNZAF helped the Lau Group again by flying in 4,000 pounds of taro and yams.
The vegetables were part of a gift to the people of Lau by Fijians of the Vuni dawa area. They were presented to Ratu Sir Lala Sukuna in Suva, and if they had had to await sea transport would have deteriorated.
The yams were especially acceptable to the Lau people as they arrived in the yam-planting season and so provided valuable material for new food gardens to replace those destroyed in the hurri cane.