Fijian Chief Is New York
pp. 19-21 · Read in the full issue
Radio Technician
Prom Our Own Correspondent
Suva, May 29.
RATU LOTE CAGAWALU, of Bureitu, Tailevu, who left Fiji in 1922, is now Mr. George Brooks, an American citizen living with his family in a mid- Manhattan flat.
This fact was mentioned in a BBC broadcast last week by Mr. C. C. Legge, an Administrative Officer from Fiji, who was given the former Ratu Lote’s New York address by Ratu Sir Lala Sukuna and called on George Brooks when travel ling to England on leave.
A radio technician, now taking an ex servicemen’s course in television, Ratu Lote served in the last war with the United States 3rd Army Engineering Corps.
He has a brother, Ratu Saimone Dobui, in the Customs Department at Suva, and the late AMP Ratu Savenaca Veikoso, BEM, was another brother.
A memorial service to members of the NGVR and New Guinea civilians who lost their lives in the sinking of the Montevideo Maru in 1942, will be held at the Sydney Cenotaph at 3 p.m. on July 1, 1950.
Mr. Claude Israel, a director of Morris.
Hedstrom, Ltd., who retired last month from the managership of the Sydney branch.
Mr. Eric Spring, who has followed Mr. Israel as manager ef the Sydney branch of Morris,
Hedstrom, Ltd.