Fiji’s Anti-TB Appeal Now Close
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To £25,000
From Our Own Correspondent
Suva, Oct. 13.
CESSION DAY activities brought Fiji’s War Memorial Anti-TB Fund Close to the £25,000 mark. The Gujarati business community of Suva has contributed £1,115 to date.
Second only to the CSR Company among the big firms, W. R. Carpenter and Co. (Fiji), Ltd., has weighed in with £l,lOO in cash, a new English car at cost price (to be raffled under licence) and 1,000 lb. of margarine to be supplied to the TB hospitals as required.
The generous Gujarati contribution may be taken as a demonstration that
the Indian community, which at times seemed inclined to stand aloof, is now determined to pull its full weight in the appeal.
It is an unfortunate fact that the only criticism and quibbling has come from a handful of well-to-do Europeans, not one of whom has produced a single valid ar gument against the ten-year campaign against tuberculosis.
An overwhelming proportion of all races is clearly enthusiastic, and the ap peal can be written up as the only real gesture of inter-racial unity since Fiji became a triangular question-mark, OCTOBER 26: The Anti-TB appeal fund has now reached a total of £28,000.