Pay Rise For Fijian Stevedores
pp. 41-42 · Read in the full issue
From Our Own Correspondent
Suva, Oct. 23.
A TWO years’ agreement between the Fiji Stevedores’ Union and shipping employers provides for an increase of lid. an hour for ordinary labour and makes other minor wage alterations. Five public holidays have been added for the purpose of overtime pay, and double rates will be paid for handling cargoes of explosives.
Mr. and Mrs. Ambrose Thomas, Rabaul, recently visited Surflers’ Paradise and Toowoomba (Queensland). They were married recently in Rabaul.
Mr. Jim O’Brien returned to New Guinea recently on the Malaita. In Madang he will assist in the manage ment of his father’s plantation.
Ravuama Vunivalu, who has been studying Co-operative methods in the United Kingdom and who later visited Ceylon to see Co-operative Societies in action* there, has now returned.
Rev. Father Tremblay, in charge of the Catholic Mission at Haapai, Tonga, was in Australia in October-November, on a brief visit. He leaves for New Zealand on his way home late in November.