Golden Wedding Of Well-Known Fiji Couple

AT Ba, Fiji, recently Mr. and Mrs. A. A.

Mune celebrated their Golden Wed-

ding. To mark the occasion they were entertained by their son and daughter-in law, Mr. and Mrs. E. Mune, and son-in law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. B. Ed wards. Many old Fiji friends attended the party and numerous congratulatory cables and messages were received from within the Colony and abroad. Mr. G.

R. Jordan proposed the toast to the couple.

Mrs. Mune was born in New Zealand and arrived in Fiji in 1897. Mr. Mune ,was born in Queensland but arrived in Fiji in 1882 when still a small boy.

He eventually became an engineering apprentice at r.he Colonial Sugar Refin ing Co’s. Rarawai Mill and shortly after his marriage, in 1900, he was transferred to Lautola Mill as second engineer. Their two children were born while the Munes were at Lautoka.

Later Mr. Mune was chief engineer at Labasa, Nausori and Rarawai —he was still at Rarawai when he retired in 1937.

As they had spent most of their married life in the Ba district, the Munes elected to build a home there and here they are happily spending their retirement.

Mr. & Mrs. A. A. Mune