Beqa Firewalkers
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Booked For Auckland
Prom Our Own Correspondent SUVA, July 15.
THOSE Beqa firewalkers are booked for Auckland. (See PIM Tropicalities for July). Mr. A. W.
Sands, who went to Fiji in June on behalf of the Auckland Public Relations Office, reported before de parture from Suva that 18 men will be flown down to give three per formances at the Auckland Indus tries Fair in January, 1954.
The Firewalkers’ Union, it appears, normally demands a four-day cool off period between walks, but after some hard dickering they finally
settled for three days to allow the three performances to be given within the period of the Fair.
They also insisted that their own Beqa stones be used for the job— so a large consignment will go for ward by ship in time for the event, which should prove a major draw card in New Zealand, where the last fire-walking performance took place in 1907, at Christchurch. fl In Adelaide en route for the UK in the Stratheden, Josua Rabuka waqa, a local preacher of the Methodist Church in Fiji, recently addressed the Blackwood branch of the Methodist Women’s Auxiliary to Oversea Missions.