Gems From The Royal

Tour Reporters

Letter to the Editor O one knows better than I that newspaper sub-editors work under pressure. But is that use for the blatant inaccuracies ich creep into Australia’s lead dailies? low is this for an insult to Fiji’s capital, Levuka, vide front page Ibourne Age, December 19? Head ; reads: “Queen enjoyed herself Fiji’s former capital.” Text of ry says: “ Tt has been a lovely r ,’ she said, this afternoon before lung Lautoka, Fiji’s former cap , 40 (sic) miles from Suva.” n another story, page 2 of the le issue, there is this gem: inga’s people, unlike the negroid ians, only 50 miles away, are it-skinned, with fine features...”

'hat same story makes reference the Tongans, alone of all the ;ific Islands groups, having re led their independence; yet on :e 5 of the same issue, in a pic e caption, we find this: “Queen ote and her subjects are Britons the heart of the Pacific.”

I am, etc.,

R. C. Macpherson.

ckay, Q.