Paintings

Exhibition of Hilder Paintings

AN exhibition of watercolours by Brett Hilder will be opened at the Woodford Hotel, Honiara, BSIP, on March 11.

There will be 16 landscapes of the Solomons area, and 16 Solomon Islander portraits.

New Fiji Health Stamps will be on sale in the Colony for 3 months from April 1.

Speaking in Brisbane recently at the Australian Workers’ Union Annual State Delegate meeting, Mr.

Bruce, MHR, said that the Bulolo plywood factory, established by “a Canadian Company with Common

wealth Government backing,” could i close every timber mill in Australia., The Company, he said, did not have-e one penny invested in Australia and t would pay no taxation. (51 per cent. of the profit will go to the Aus- tralian Government, which does not 3 seem a bad return for its invest- ment and the benefit of Bulolo Gold i Dredging’s know-how).

Hebrides Sail-fish

A sail-fish caught off Vila, New Hebrides, by Mr. R. Delaveuve and Mr.

Bouvier, The catch—the first of its kind thereabouts—was made while trolling from a small launch. —Photo by Fung Kuei.