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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 April 1951Vol. XXI, No. 9

“Fijian” Wins Sydney House

p. 105 · Read in the full issue

SHRI RAM, described in Sydney news papers as a Fijian, won first prize in a NSW Art Union on April 2. The prize is a £4,000 house at Ryde, a suburb of Sydney.

Director of the Art Union said that £l,OOO worth of tickets had been sold in Fiji.

Shri Ram will not have any trouble in disposing of his new possession in house hungry Sydney. But maybe he’ll keep it as a transit-depot for all the Piji-Indians

who pass through Sydney on their way to and from Mother India—if Australia’s White Australia policy will permit such a thing.

Wing Commander Webb, DSO, DFC, who has been in command of the RNZAF Station, Laucala Bay, Fiji, since 1948, will relinquish his command on May 1, and return to New Zealand on transfer. The new CO, Wing Commander K. W. Tri gance, DFC, is expected in Fiji shortly.

He has only recently returned from duty at RNZAF Headquarters, London.