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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 December 1953Vol. XXIV, No. 5

BEM to Indian Sugar-Worke

p. 134 · Read in the full issue

Queen Elizabeth has approve the immediate award of tl British Empire Medal to Ras' Bux, an employee at the Coloni; Sugar Refining Company’s Nauso Mill, for his courage and devotic to duty at the time of the eartl quake in Fiji, on September 14.

Rasul Bux is a water-tender in tt mill boiler-station. When the eartt quake occurred, he carried on woi in the midst of escaping steam 1 shut the control valves. In th way, he brought the steam undt control and prevented what migl have been serious damage to tl mill, and possibly loss of life.