News Pictures From Vanua Levu
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Mr. E. J. H. Colchester Wemyss, Super intendent of Police and Prisons in the British Solomon Islands Protectorate, completed 17 years service in the Colonial Police Service on February 16, which was also his birthday. He took up duty in Honiara last year, taut was sworn in as a policeman on February 16, 1933, in Jerusalem, and during 17 years has served in Palestine, Barbados and Ja maica. During the war he was engaged on CID duty in Trinidad and St. Lucia.
Glimpses of Labasa, the sugar metropolis of Vanua Levu, Fiji. TOP LEFT: Bishop Victor Foley, Vicar Apostolic of Fiji, paid a visit to Labasa. LEFT TO RIGHT: Mr. E. Sundin, the Bishop, Mr. Gulio Massena, Miss Vera Marshall (proprietress of Grand Eastern Hotel) and Father McDonnell. TOP RIGHT: The Public Works Department closed down in Labasa owing to inability to procure staff. The District
Engineer, Mr. Ross (on the left) and Accountant, Mr. Canard (on right) say farewell to Mr. H.
B. Gibson, chairman of Town Board (centre).
LOWER: Visit of Fiji Military Band to Labasa.
The Band sergeant, Drum-Major Atanaisa, and Lieut. Hansard are shown with Mr. Gibson before the Band left in the buses for Korotari and Naleba. —Photos by H. F. Gibson.