Otary Aid to Fiji

Makes Impressive List

me c n SUVA > August 18. ’HE Suva Rotary Club, in an offi cial statement, has just disclosed at the Rotary clubs of New Zea id contributed £1,250 in cash and i tons of clothing for post-hurri ne relief in Fiji. Suva Rotary stnbuted about 22,000 garments.

Examples of how the money was ;nt are: ) for the Fijian officers at 5 Yasawa Meteorological Station o lost everything when the station s wiped out: (2) £l9 for out [ng a Fijian schoolgirl who had aimed for entrance to the Adi kobau School but could not attend >ause her father had lost every my in the total destruction of his lana plantation and could not pay her outfit and uniforms; (3) 100 towards the erection of a tool at the new village of Nabua, nabula. The village has been es

tablished to accommodate some of the Suva Fijians who were left home less by the hurricane.

New Zealand Rotary has also given £5O for games equipment and other amenities at the Nasinu Teach ers’ Training College, while the Suva Rotary Club has fitted out a St. John Ambulance room at Buckhurst Park, Laucala Bay, and has given another £5O as a Christmas gift to the pa tients at the Tamavua Tuberculosis Hospital.

According to a press message from Rarotonga, the value of MOP shell exports from Manihiki and Penrhyn lagoons for the last

financial year amounted to £115,019. This is the highest on record. The value in the previous year was £80,128.