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The New Zealanders
Letter to the Editor IN the November issue of the PIM Mr.
J. S. K. B. Borron, of Mago, Fiji, makes some criticisms of the New Zealand service personnel in Fiji, Mr. Borron’s inference is that the New Zealand servicemen who served in Fiji and the Solomons were undignified and inefficient.
New Zealand is, fortunately, no longer a “Socialist paradise” and New Zealand servicemen were noted, wherever they served or called during the war, for their quiet dignity and soldierly bearing—to mention a few places, England, Canada, Greece, Perth, Durban and even Fiji where the majority of people, including the Fijians, will undoubtedly disagree with Mr. Borron’s opinion. There were some exceptions, of course, but they will ob viously be found in any army.
I am not sure of the nature of Mr.
Borron’s contribution to the war effort, other than the use of his property in Suva as a Headquarters; but I do hope that he did not receive any assistance from the Catalinas of the RNZAF after the hurricane in the Lau Group in December, 1948; and if at any time in the future Mr. Borron becomes seriously ill and it is necessary for his quick removal to hos pital in Suva, I trust that he will think twice before accepting transportation in a Catalina which will be flown by some of those undignified, etc., personnel.
And, when the next war comes, I dare say Mr. Borron will be found sitting in the tallest coconut on Mago with his field glasses, searching the southern horizon for the convoy from New Zealand which
cannot now arrive too soon for him.
I am, etc.,
O. A. D. Johnson.
Wellington, NZ. (A letter from Mr. Borron on this subject appears on another page.) Mrs. J. Backhouse, who has been visit ing her parents in Brisbane, recently re turned to Rabaul by plane.
Messrs R. L. Munro, D. J. Warren and A. D. Leys, practising as Barristers and Solicitors at Suva and Lautoka, an nounced recently that they have admitted to partnership Mr. R. G. Q. Kermode, Barrister and Solicitor, who has been as sociated with them as the managing clerk of their Lautoka Office. The prac tice will be continued under the name of “Ellis, Munro, Warren and Leys” as hitherto.