Fijian Fighters In Australia

are popular, and the fight crowds give them a good reception.

The leading fighter in the group is the light-heavy and heavyweight champion, Atunais Camaibau —or Henry Bray as he is known in Australia. In eight fights, against top-ranking Australian boxers, he has won five times. One of his recent fights was against Dave Sands, middle weight, light-heavy and heavyweight champion of Australia, also British Empire Middle-weight champion and con tender for the World’s Middleweight Crown. Bray lost on a TKO.

Amongst other Island boys fighting in Australia at the present time are feather weight Arthur Moore, who has had two fights, and two wins, and Jack O’Brien, a middleweight from the Ellice Islands.

Another Fijian lad with the team is Eugene Wakeham, who does the massag ing of the Fiiian boxers and also helps Mr. Bert Anderson, their manager and trainer, as his chief second in their corners.

Mr. R. M. Taylor, Financial Secretary, Fiji, and Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Garnett returned to the Colony in February after overseas leave.

A well-known old resident of the Territories left Sydney on the March Bulolo for a visit to Papua-New Guinea.

She is Mrs. Lillian Millar, better known in the old days as Mrs. Bennett. When her husband, Mr. Toby Millar, went off for service in the Middle East in early 1940, Lillian became a VAD, and nursed in Australian military hospitals for three years. Later, she was an ambulance driver in Queensland for the American Army, and a billeting officer for the Netherlands Air Force. After the war, she was Liaison and Accommodation officer in Sydney for ANA, and in 1949 she joined with ex-serviceman A. R. Coventry in the establishment of a real estate and travel agency in North Sydney. In her inimitable way, she goes to much trouble to find flats or book travel for Territorians arriving in Sydney, and thus has created a valuable business.

Mr. and Mrs. T. Stephens, who have been holidaying in Brisbane, have re turned to their home in Manus Island, NG.