More Health Stamps to Aid Fiji's Anti-TB Campaign
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During a visit of HMAS Hawkes bury to Samarai, in early April, a local cricket eleven played the visitors. The local team was: F.
Hoeter (Capt.), B. Garrett (Vice- Capt.), V. Gabriel, A. Daw, Merari Dickson, Leo Baptist, A. Barker, K.
Lee, D. Grove, R. Allen, C. Davis and J. Kane. The Samarai Branch of the Country Women’s Association supplied afternoon tea.
The first of the 1954 Health Stamps (proceeds go to Fiji’s Anti-TB Fund) were placed on sale in the Colony on April 1.
The stamps are in 2d and 3d denomina tions and will be available for three months.
On the day the stamps were placed on sale, chairman of the Fund, Sir Hugh Ragg, made an address from a stand adjoining the Suva Post Office, as shown in above photograph.
The persons shown in the group, from left to right, are:
Mr. Len Usher (Public Relations Officer); Dr. Hoodless; Sir Alport Barker; Dr. Cruickshank (Director of Medical Services); Mr. R. A. Derrick (Director of Fiji Museum); the Governor (Sir Ronald Garvey); Sir Hugh Ragg (at the micro phone); Mr. Vishnu Deo (partly ob scured): Lady Garvey (obscured by post); Dr. Poole (with the two Garvey children) and, on the extreme right, the Mayor of Suva (Mr. McFarlane). —Photo by Fiji Public Relations Office.