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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 February 1954Vol. XXIV, No. 7

Occupants Walked Out

p. 52 · Read in the full issue

Fiji, like the rest of the world, suffers from an acute shortage of trained stenographers. In an en deavour to overcome this the Fiji Education Department has opened a school in Suva where classes for aspiring stenographers will be held each morning. In the afternoons the students will be required to assist in the Government offices.

During the period of training each student will be paid £lOO per annum.

The Rev. S. G. C. Cowled, QBE, Chairman of the Methodist Mission in Fiji, has gone to Malaya to pay a brief visit to the Ist Battalion.

He served as Chaplain with the Ist Battalion in the Solomons during the Pacific war.

In this car a man and his wife plunged over the cliffs near the Rouna Hotel, about 30 miles out of Port Moresby, at 1.30 a.m. on December 19. Neither was seriously hurt, but this is what the car looked like after its 200-ft. plunge. The couple were Mr. and Mrs. G. Bugg. —Photo by Papuan Prints.