Ashes of Ami Chandra
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Returned to Fiji
THE body of Pandit Ami Chandra, who was killed in the Singa pore BOAC aircraft crash in March, was cremated at Biddri Cemetery, Singapore, on March 15.
The ceremony was carried out by
the Arya Samaj Association of Singapore, in the presence of Major Ratu Penaia Ganilau and some of the small number of Indian troops of the Ist Battalion, Fiji Infantry Regiment, who are serving in Malaya.
His ashes were returned to Fiji by air.
U Mr. Stuart Reay, OBE, retiring Commissioner of Labour, was fare welled from Fiji early in April, and his successor, Mr. Pearson wel comed at a Fijian ceremony organ ised by the Fiji Seamen’s Union.
The Union’s vice-president, Kitione Rabuto, thanked Mr. Reay for his sympathetic encouragement and
wise advice during the early days of the Union when he had had a most stabilising influence in the Labour field in Fiji. Mr. Reay was presented with mats, masi and a silver-mounted tabua. Early in April he left for the United King dom on pre-retirement leave.
Corporal Badil Aua, of the Pacific Islands Regiment, escaped from the Enqggera Camp detention barracks (Brisbane) in March, while serving a sentence for absence without leave. He returned to the camp after 24 hours. An army PRO said Corporal Aua had spent the night in the nearby bush, and had left camp be cause he felt like a “walk-about.”