Pacific Islands Monthly
The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930
Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 October 1954Vol. XXV, No. 3

Lady Garvey's Fund for Fijian Servicemen a Great Success

p. 18 · Read in the full issue

Page 1818

LADY GARVEY’S Fund for gift parcels to Fiji troops overseas closed on September 25 with over £lO,OOO. The target was £,3000.

Funds were collected mainly through a Queen Carnival, the

Army-Police Queen, a Fijian girl, being officially crowned at a big public ceremony outside the Suva town hall by the Governor, Sir Ronald Garvey, on the final day of the drive.

The photograph was taken just a[?] Meresiana Leiwaliwa Lutuwasa, the Fiji Queen (centre foreground), had b[?] crowned. Other contestants represent Chinese, European and Indian Communion are also shown —Photo by Fiji Public Relations Of

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