Transferred from Ambrym

The^ n u W Z iji <? entral School was opened by the Governor at Nasese late in January. The school will cater for the 680 Fijian children of rs Permanently employed in Suva. Construction has been largely financed by money-raising efforts on the part of Fijians.

II Miss Mary Dawn Trotter, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Trotter, formerly of Suva and now of Auck land, has announced her engage ment to Mr. Frederick Reed Alan Hellaby, son of Mr. F. A. Hellaby of Auckland. They plan to marry in April.

Scouting in Fiji, where the Gov ernor is Chief bcout, has a bright outlook according to the annual re port of the executive committee.

Membership is steadily increasing,

1.638 at December 31, wffh improved training facilities and more trained staff in sight. The Australian State of Victoria is giving useful assist ance to the Fiji Scout movement.

When the volcano on Ambrym Island, New Hebrides, erupted some months ago, a number of the nattive communities on the island were in grave danger. A planter and trander, Mr. Andre Houdie, went to the help of the people and he took the inhabitants of one willage, about 150 men, women and children, across to his plantation at Mele, near Port Vila, and seettied them there in a place which he had prepared for them.

In this photograph, by Fung Kuei, Mr. Houdie is seen in the new village, with about haif of the newly established community