Young Fiji-Indian Joins Raf

THE Air Ministry in London has accepted Narendra Parshu Ram, of Lautoka, for a Royal Air Force air craft apprenticeship at the RAF College, Cranwell, England. This is the first to be awarded in Fiji and the Western Pacific Territories.

Narendra Parshu Ram is a son of Parshu Ram, a teacher at the Natabua Secondary School, Lautoka, and was until recently a student at the Wellington Technical College in New Zealand. He received his secondary education at the Natabua Secondary School, Lautoka, and passed the Cambridge School Certificate ex amination. The entrance examination for the apprenticeship was held in Suva under the supervision of the Director of Education.

Fiji’s Official Festival Visitors

THE three members of the Fiji Legis lative Council, who will visit Britain as the guests of the United Kingdom Government during the Festival of Britain, have been nominated by the un official members of the Council. They are, Mr. H. Maurice Scott, Ratu G. C.

Tuisawau, and Mr. Tulsi Ram Sharma.

The period of the visit will be from July 9 to July 30 and it is expected that about

90 representatives from the Colonies will attend.

The three Fiji representatives will leave Fiji by BCPA aircraft on July 4, via Honolulu, San Francisco, and New York to London. They will return via Aus tralia to Fiji, arriving at Nadi on August 8, 1951.

A Pan-Pacific Women’s Conference will be held in Christchurch, New Zealand in January, 1952.