Bravery Award To
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Fiji Indian Policeman
IT was announced on Septen 24, that the Queen approved the immediate au of the Colonial Police Medal Sergeant Puran Jorawar, aged the first Indian in the Fiji Pc Force to receive this award.
Sergeant Jorawar was a passer in the Fiji Airways de Havill Rapide which crashed and burned while making a foi landing near Labasa Airport, April 24.
The citation states that he “ mediately broke the windows in fuselage, undid the safety belt: those passengers who did not k how to work them, and helped t] to escape. That all the passen were successfully evacuated f the burning wreck is due air wholly to the courage and comp disregard for his own pers< safety of Sergeant Jorawar. He the last person to leave the bun wreck. About 45 seconds after had left the petrol tanks explod A new large-scale map of Levu is now on sale at the Ls Department in Suva. The ma in four sheets and its full 6 ft by 4 ft. It can be supp coloured or plain. A set of ; sheets is priced at 255.