Islands

Pacific

Monthly

March, 1954

Vol. XXIV. No. 8

Jblished 1930.

for transmission by post as a newspaper l

HOW TIMES HAVE CHANGED: Fijians made exhibitions of Fire-walking long before Europeans came to the South Seas. Then, if they travelled at all, they paddled their own canoes; and, for sustenance, they sat around a heap of food cooked in a ground oven. To-day, how different. When 25 Beqa men went to Auckland in January to demonstrate fire-walking, they travelled on one of TEAL’S modern flyingboats. And, as for eating—well, here is a photograph of TEAL Flight Hostess, Miss V. Eggers, serving luncheon to one of the Fire-walkers.