From NZ to the Islands
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Professor J. W. Davidson, Pro fessor of. Pacific History at the National University, Canberra, left on July 8 for Fiji and Western Samoa. He will spend six weeks in Western Samoa continuing the research into its political history on which he has been engaged for some years. In Fiji, he will discuss the future of the Fiji and Western Pacific High Commission archives.
“We have shared £12,000 in the lottery. It’s fair dinkum. Catch first plane South.” This cable was sent to Mr. Rex Smith, overseer at Bali plantation, Vitu Group, via Rabaul, by a war-time friend, Mr.
Frank Huckstepp, from Liverpool, NSW, on July 8.
Travellers on the TOFUA in July in cluded, from top: Brig.-Gen. Sir Herbert E. Hart, DSO, CB, CMG, CDG, Administrator of Western Samoa, 1931-35. and Lady Hart. Now living in the Waiararapa, NZ, they paid a return visit to Samoa.
Mr. G. L. Edwards, Collector of Customs.
Fiji, with Mrs. Edwards and Widget, returned to Suva after furlough in NZ.
Mr. A. Nelson Duder, a director of the well-known NZ firms of A. G. Price, Ltd., and Wm. Cable, Ltd., with Mrs. Duder, paid a business and holiday visit to Tonga, Samoa and Fiji.