CSR Coy's Generous

Gift To Fiji Anti-TB Fund

x . SUVA. Oct. 3.

Y making a straight-out gift of £3,000 plus a promise of £750 every year for five years (a total contribution of £6,750), the Colonial Sugar Refinery Company has given Fiji’s War Memorial Anti-TB Appeal its biggest boost to date.

The company, which is frequently abused by the ill-informed as a monster of imperialist-capitalist exploitation, is unquestionably the Colony’s most generous and most consistent supporter of humanitarian and patriotic causes In 1920 it headed the list of donations for the Colonial War Memorial Hospital with £5,000, and its unostentatious backing of projects ranging from Fijian child welfare to schemes benefiting its own Indian tenants is not as well publicised as it should be.

To date the fund is close to £12,000, of which the Suva area has produced £5,000.

These figures, however, are somewhat mis leading, as the officially listed donations are well behind the sums known to have been raised by dozens of organisations throughout the Colony and not yet paid in.

In the meantime, European correspon dents in the press are again raising a howl of indignant protest at the alto gether disproportionate contributions from the Fijian people. There is little doubt that the attitude of many respon sible Europeans is: This time the Fijians ought to have been politely asked to keep out, or at least not permitted to make contributions unreasonably beyond their resources.

With this comes the disturbing thought

that if the other races were left to see to the War Memorial Fund without the Fijians, it would almost certainly sink.

The engagement has been announced of Miss Elizabeth Ann Tait, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W. Tait late of Rabaul, New Guinea and now of Port Moresby to Mr. K. N. Padget, of Koitaki Planta tions, Ltd., Port Moresby.