Whats In A Name?
p. 87 · Read in the full issue
SINCE New Zealand interest in a Fijian police inspector’s long name started it, longer and longer Fijian names have been brought to light in Fiji. The record now stands at 130 letters, and like the other long names, is really a sentence describing an event at or near the time of the holder’s birth.
The record name is:— Marika Tuimudremudrenicagitokalauna
tobakonatewaenagaunakalakivolaikoyaki-
nakotamanaenaiivolanikawabulaenavalenivolavolaniyasanamaisomosomo.
The name records that with the aid oi a northerly wind Marika’s father sailed from Natewa on Vanua Levu to the Provincial Office at Somosomo, Taveuni, to register the birth of the child.
Canon W. T. Hand arrived in Sydney recently en route to Papua from the United Kingdom, to see his son, Arch deacon G. H. Hand, consecrated co adjutor Bishop of New Guinea at Dogura, Papua, on June 29.