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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 September 1953Vol. XXIV, No. 2

Fiji’s Royal Gift

p. 21 · Read in the full issue

THE Fiji Royal Visit Committee, of which the Governor is Chairman, in early August de cided on the gift which will be made to Her Majesty during the Royal visit in December.

It will be a ring of Fiji gold in which a Fiji grey pearl will be set in diamonds and sapphires.

Mr. A. Atkinson, formerly of the Singapore Police, has joined the Royal Papuan-New Guinea Con stabulary.

Dr. Frederick S. Brenneman, Director of Public Health, Eastern Samoa, visited Suva at the end of August in connection with the transfer of E. Samoan leper patients from Makogai to a new leper station at Tafuna, Tutuila.