More Radio-Active Fish

TWO tons of tuna taken to Japan by a vessel which had fished off Australia, and a further ten tons from another vessel which had fished off New Britain and Truk, had to be dumped at the end of October when declared to be too radio-active for human consump tion.

Nuclear scientists have said re peatedly since the March Bikini H bomb explosion that any dangerous flow of radio-active water through ocean currents was impossible, but they seem to have overlooked the fact that radio-active fish might travel great distances.

There have been differences of opinion, however, between Japanese and non-Japanese nuclear scientists on the definition of “dangerously” radio-active.

H Miss Noelle Sandwith, a young English artist, is spending several months in Tonga where she is re cording native village life in a series of charcoal drawings. Last year she made studies of the aborigines in outback Australia which created great interest among art followers.

At the end of her time in Tonga, she will return to England where she will show her South Seas col lection.

H Mr. and Mrs. I. B. Chalmers, pro minent residents of Fiji, are leaving the Colony. Mr. Chalmers was born there, worked for a time in Government service, then entered the insurance field as represent ative for Edward Lumley and Sons (NZ) Ltd. During the war he be came commander of the Suva Bat tery with the rank of Major in the Fiji Military Forces. Since then he has served as a member of the Fiji Copra Board, the Fiji Town Planning Board, and the Rhinoceros Beetle Eradication Board, as Local Authority for the Suva Rural San

itary District, and as a member of the staff of the Fijian Development Fund Board at various times. Mrs.

Chalmers has taken a leading part in Suva amateur theatricals, in cluding many broadcast perform ances, and has been an enthusiastic member of the Fiji Arts Club. She has been a member of the Fiji Broadcasting Commission since its formation last year.

A son (Paul Jnr.) was born to Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mason, of Inus Plantation, Bougainville, T-NG, in August.