Who Is Miss Baksh From Fiji?

UNDER a three-column headline (Colour Bar Exiles Fijian Nurse) in the Syd ney Daily Telegraph, of October 10, 24-year-old Miss Melba Baksh, who is described as a Fijian nurse, complains that colour discrimination has driven her out of Fiji.

She has just returned to an Adelaide hospital after a visit to Fiji. She is re ported as saying that she applied re cently at the Suva hospital for a re sponsible position “but the Europeans who control the hospital administration refused because of my colour.” She says she will go to London next year and probably settle, later, in Canada or New Zealand Baksh does not sound like a Fi.nan name; and the outburst about racial dis crimination sounds more likely to belong to another section of the Fiji community.

However, Miss Baksh, whoever she is, evidently feels that she has a grudge against the Fiji medical department.

The Rev. Norman Cocks, secretary in Australia for the London Missionary Society, was visiting LMS stations in Papua in September.