Miss Catalina
p. 65 · Read in the full issue
When Manasa Vere, popular Fijian AMP at Savusavu, Vanua Levu, found that there were complications to a maternity case he was attending, he lost no time getting to the R-T station and talking to Suva medical authorities. The result was that an RNZAF flying-boat was despatched to the scene, the expectant mother flown to Suva, and, in due course, a baby girl was born.
During a recent visit to Savusavu, I was taking an early Sunday morning stroll along the beach road, when I found I had company—a young father taking his child for an airing. We chatted, and I inquired the infant’s name. It left no doubts as to who she was, for Miss Catalina Lilo had been named after the mercy plane which took her mother to Suva nearly 12 months before. Here she is with her father.—ROB WRIGIHT.