Fiji Scores An Extra Holiday
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From Our Own Correspondent SUVA, September 19.
GUY FAWKES’ DAY is not a public holiday in Fiji, but this year the public will have a holiday, although not to celebrate the frustrating of the explosive activities of Mr. Fawkes, in 1605.
November 5 will be the last day of the War Memorial Anti-TB Appeal for the first year of its ten-year campaign, and, at the request of the central appeal or ganisation, the Governor has proclaimed the day a holiday. (There is a suspicion that as so many official and unofficial appeal organisations have announced large-scale activities for the day, the Government realised that not many people would be at work anyway.)