Workers Congress Meets
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in Suva
REPRESENTATIVES of the seven % unions associated with the Fiji Industrial Worker’s Congress et at their second annual con rence at Suva recently. Unions presented were Fiji Airport Em oyees’, P.W.D. Employees’, Sea en’s, Sugar Workers’, Mine Workers’, Commercial Employees’, id Timber Workers’.
Pandit Ami Chandra, principal of ie DAY College, presided.
The emphasis of the meeting was i unity amongst all sections of Drkers in the Colony. Various >eakers urged all workers to join ieir respective unions.
Fijian and Indian representatives 1 expressed the aims of the con rence as striving for higher andards of living and better con tions of work by means of peace .l negotiation with employers.
11 Mr. W. E. Donnelly, who was headmaster of the Toorak Boy’s School in Suva, Fiji, for 11 years until 1947, has been appointed headmaster of the new intermediate school at Remuera, Auckland, NZ, which opens next year. He is at present headmaster of the Gisborne Central School, NZ.
H The Rev. C. W. Whonsbon-Aston, of the Anglican Church in Apia, Western Samoa, was in southern New South Wales in November in the course of an Australia-wide campaign to tell Australians some thing about the mission work per formed in the large diocese of Polynesia.