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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 January 1954Vol. XXIV, No. 6

The Queen’S Thanks To

p. 25 · Read in the full issue

Fiji

In conveying to the Governor of Fiji (Sir Ronald Garvey) and Lady Garvey the Queen’s warm thanks for Fiji’s welcome and hospitality, the Queen’s private secretary wrote: “TT was indeed a most absorbing i-two days; and it was certainly a tour de force on your part and on that of your Committee to com press so much variety and interest into such a short time without mak ing the visit the least exhausting.

“I can assure you that not only the Queen and the Duke of Edin burgh, but every other member of the party, wish they could have stayed very much longer in Fiji.”

IF Judge and Mrs. R. T. Gore, of Port Moresby, Papua, left there by air on December 2 for leave in Aus tralia. In Canberra, in February, they will join the official party of Territorians who will be gathered there to meet the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh.