Ree-Planting Campaign

In Central Suva

SUVA, March 27. recent years, tree-destruction in Suva has been deplorable.

But nowadays, people from the rernor downward are doing their t to promote tree-growing, n March 26, a group of Euro n, Fijian and Indian women, by the Mayoress (Mrs. D. M. N. continued the planting young flamboyants along the aourside drive running past Gov nent House. This drive, which ered a terrific battering in the ! hurricane, is prosaically called •ine Parade. It is an extension /ictoria Parade, and it is hoped : after the Royal visit in De ber it will be renamed Queen abeth Drive. ite last year a row of flam mts was planted near the Boys’ mmar School to replace the it weeping fig trees which were >oted by the hurricane, le discovery of rhinoceros le infestation in the Suva area lent urgency to the Town

Council’s general clean-up cam paign, Under the emergency regula tions all occupiers of land are re quired to eliminate dead palms and to deal with any possible breeding places for the pest. These include decaying vegetation on the ground and garden compost heaps. Removal of any soil from the Suva area without permission of the Director of Agriculture is strictly forbidden.

Mrs. Polly Bambridge Brown, wife of Mr. Robert Warren Brown, of Papeete, Tahiti, became the mother on March 23 of a fine son, who has been named Ronald Roger Teriipaora Brown. Various proud relations have reported the event, including Mr. Charles Brown, Jnr., of Raiatea, who insists that he and Mrs. Brown are greatly enjoying the status of grandparents.