[?]Ift Parcels For Fiji’S

Jungle Fighters

rHEN it was learned in Fiji that Patriotic Fund parcels were be ing sent from New Zealand to Fiji Battalion in the Malayan r, because the Fijian soldiers e not getting much in the way comforts, there was some acid iment in Suva. It was pointed that the Fijian native com aity had provided the battalion, [ had regular sent supplies of ;s, yaqona (for making kava) . so forth; and that the non ans of Fiji had done practic nothing. was only thoughlessness. When wife of the Governor, Lady vey, launched an appeal to non ans for funds to send parcels to soldiers, the response was very 1 The Fund reached £l,OOO lin a few days—thanks to a suc ful radio drive by the staff of ’, Suva. The first lot of parcels go forward as part of the Dnation celebrations. rs. J. W. Backhouse, Nambung itation, New Britain, is spend a holiday with her mother, Mrs.

S. Gordon, of Rain worth, Bris e.