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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 June 1950Vol. XX, No. 11

Smash-and-Grab

p. 57 · Read in the full issue

Raffle Prize Lost In Smash-and-Grab

From Our Own Correspondent

Suva, May 29.

A FRAMED £5 note, second prize in an Indian women’s organisation raffle, disappeared when a young Indian, not long out of gaol, smashed a shop window and helped himself to the dis played second prize.

Subsequently the man was returned to gaol, but the prize has not returned to the owners—or to the possible winner.

Moves of major executives in the Bums Philp (SS) Co., Ltd.: Mr. E. Sundin, from manager, "Labasa (Fiji) to manager, Levuka; Mr. M. H. Helsen, from manager, Levuka, to manager, Suva; Mr. Harold Tate (formerly manager at Nukualofa, Tonga) from merchandise manager, Suva, to manager, Labasa.

Mrs. Eva Pike, of Goulburn, NSW, has given a church bell to St. John’s School, Wailoku, Fiji, in memory of her husband who died in 1947. Mrs. Pike was formerly secretary of the Bishop in Polynesia and later a teacher in St. John’s. When she returned to Goulburn, NSW, she married an Anglican clergyman of that diocese.