Hostel for Fijian Girls

in Suva

KEEN Fijian support is being given to a proposal by Lady Garvey, wife of Fiji’s Governor, that a hostel be established near Suva for the housing of Fijian girls who are employed there but who live in distant villages.

Some Provincial Councils have undertaken to impose levies of from 1/- to 3/- per head to help the pro posed fund.

Lady Garvey stressed the urgent need for a hostel in a broadcast early in October. Pointing to the pitfalls of city life for young girls, and the adverse effect on their health from crowded living condi tions and poor food, Lady Garvey said she felt the time had come when there should be some thought to organising hostels, where the parents of the girls will know that they are being well cared for, well fed, and have the right companion ship, recreation and guidance.

The idea was to erect as a be ginning a building to house 20 girls, with a permanent Matron and Under-Matron.

A fund-raising committee has since been formed with Lady Garvey as President and Lady Maraia, Vice-President.

H Mr. Andrew Naturel, son of the late Andre Naturel, well-known Hebridean resident, will marry Miss Jacqueline Brossier in December.

Miss Brossier is the daughter of Dr.

Brossier, a medical officer in Santo for many years before he retired to his plantation.

H The Rt. Rev. Bishop Baddeley, well remembered as Anglican Bishop of Melanesia, from 1932 through World War 11, and lately Suffra gan Bishop of Whitby, England, has been nominated by the Queen as Bishop of Blackburn. He left the Solomons in 1947.