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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 July 1953Vol. XXIII, No. 12

Coronation Ceremonies In Lautoka, Fiji

p. 19 · Read in the full issue

[?]ther Coronation Festivities

Mayor Hollander is addressing the gathering. On the platform, left to right, are Mrs. Hollander, the Rev. Mr. Jago, Mrs. MacAlpine (wife of the District Commissioner), Mr. Robert Evans (Town

Clerk) and, partly obscured, Mr. “Barney”

Rourke (manager of CSR Co.).

All communities worked hard and harmoniously to celebrate the occasion fittingly In Lanutoka.

(Left to right): Decorations erected near the Triangle, Suva during Coronation week. Small Indian boys at a flag display the C.S.R. Park, at Labasa. Pupils of the Suva Girls' Grammar School in a folk-dancing display Photo by Fiji Public Relations Office.

Left to right: "The Queen:-proposed by Brigadier D.M. Cleland, Administrator of P-NG, at the Coronation Ball on [?] 5-show (left to right) Mrs Cleland, Mr E. A. James. Brigadier Cleland, Mrs. Phillips, Mr Lonergan. Scout and Guide Thanksgiving Service on May 31. The Administrator Port Moresby children on dren's Day. Juen 1. Photos by Papuan Prints.