No Crown For Nehru
pp. 47-48 · Read in the full issue
Prom Our Own Correspondent SUVA, September 10.
CRUDE prints of Nehru dressed up in something strongly suggesting the Royal Robes of State complete with Crown and Sceptre, appeared in Indian shops in Fiji recently for 2/- each. The British-Fijian temper, not improved by the original’s steady move towards the Soviet camp in Asia, exploded with suf ficient emphasis to provoke a Royal Gazette proclamation banning the pseudo imperial Nehru prints and two other In
dian importations—one of them a glorification of the Indian anti-British text: “Quit India!”
The Fiji-Indian Press has burst into shrill lamentations over the banning of Royal Nehru in this British Crown Colony.
Miss Sheila Wesley-Smith, of the New Guinea Baptist Mission arrived in Aus tralia in September to do deputation work.
She has been studying linguistics in the Territory.
Ponape Agricultural Demonstration Station was started in 1921 by the Jap anese and re-established in 1948 by the United States Trust Territory Administra tion. The Directors’ 1949-50 Report states that the station (about 30 acres) is well stocked with tropical, economic plants, and an attempt has been made to establish a native subsistence garden where the per formance of main native food crops can be compared with new introductions. Soil fertility and land use studies were carried out, and possible reafforestation studied.
Brahma livestock was successfully intro duced.