Suva’s Dry Season Was

Twice as Wet

FIJI Meterological Office, sum marising weather conditions in 1954, reports that it was the fifth wettest year on record as far as Suva was concerned. Notable was the dampness of the so-called dry season, the rainfall for the May to October period reaching 71.46 inches as compared with the average of 48.60 inches.

The Suva maximum temperature of 94.5 degrees was the highest reached since 1949. Generally, the year was somewhat above average in warmth, with averages for Sep tember and December about 2 de grees above normal.

U Mr. Vivian Hides —one of the well known Hides family of Papua and now a resident of Sydney, has been severely ill for several months and now is receiving specialist attention.

fl Mr. Syd Saville, for the past three years Agricultural Teacher at the Gosford (NSW) High School, re cently resigned from the Depart ment of Education to take a posi tion with the Commonwealth De partment of Agriculture in P-NG.

He has been appointed Agricultural Extension Officer and is under con tract for two years. After this

period he will be given th:. months’ leave and the option of : turning to New Guinea. Mr. Savi left for Port Moresby on January U Mr. Selwyn Jones, of the Treasu Nukualofa, and Mrs. Jones, : turned to Tonga in February af: furlough in Australia and Ni Zealand.