Famous School For
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Fiji Boys
Is Re-Established
SUVA, March 8 BUILT at a cost of £158,000, of which the United Kingdom provided £lOO,OOO from Col onial Development and Welfare funds, the new Queen Victoria School was opened by the Governor of Fiji (Sir Ronald Garvey) on March 5.
The original QV School was opened at. Nasinu, near Suva, in 1907, most of the buildings being paid for by the Fijians themselves.
It became Fiji’s foremost school, but in 1941 it was turned into an Army hospital. Then it became the Teachers’ Training College; while QV School remained exiled in de plorable conditions at Nanukuloa, near Viti Levu Bay.
The new school is at Matavatu cou, on the Tailevu coast, 45 miles north of Suva. Here 205 acres of land, in a setting of unspoiled natural beauty, were given by Sir Henry Scott. The school buildings, planned to accommodate 180 Pijian boys, are spacious, well-equipped and modern in every detail.