Independence Day Was Quiet
pp. 51-52 · Read in the full issue
This Year
Prom Our Own Correspondent SUVA, September 10.
THE third Indian Independence Day (August 15) came and went in Fiji almost unnoticed this year.
There were no parades; no aggressive posters; no raucous Indian loud-speakers on trucks in the streets of Suva: no parade of Nehru-capped youth to cheer the hoist ing of the Indian Republican flag at Albert Park; no cocktail party at the Grand Pacific Hotel.
Beyond the usual outbreak of Indian flags and a dead-and-alive political meet ing at the Town Hall, Suva was hardly reminded that Mother India had been “freed from the tyranny of Imperialism.”
Mr. H. Knewstubb, well-known to people in Fiji, Tonga and Samoa as chief en gineer on the MV Matua died in Auckland in early September.
Mataica Tuicakau, the giant Fijian athlete who won the shot-put in the Em pire Games in Auckland, NZ, early this year, will probably be invited to visit Aus tralia next year during Federal Jubilee celebrations. A number of overseas ath letes will be invited to go to Australia.
Sister Ruth Jamieson and Sister Hen rietta Paling recently left Melbourne to
nurse in the Paton Memorial Hospital, Vila, New Hebrides.