Well-Printed Book
p. 48 · Read in the full issue
Is More
Indian Than Fijian
A COPY of the third edition of the Vivekananda High School Times Annual is to hand.
Printed in English, Hindi, and Fijian, with a great many photo graphic illustrations, this 100-page publication is a pleasant surprise.
Larger schools in more advanced countries produce much less ambiti ous annual publications than this.
Cost of the publication was well supported by advertisers and the actual printing was carried out by the Sangam Sarada Printing Press of Nadi.
The Vivekananda School is operated by the Ramaknshna Mission, and is one of many similar schools in Fiji. Though the articles contained in the Annual are of gen eral interest, the reader is made aware that the policy of this school is to orient the interest of its pupils more towards India than towards Fiji. The pupils may be third generation Fiji-born—but they still are being trained to think of India as their real home. For religious reasons this probably could not be otherwise —but it does emphasise the racial problems that exist in Fiji.
Whereas in Hawaii the Japanese immigrant has become in the main
a Hawaiian-American in outlook as well as in racial status and citizen ship, this Fiji school Annual serves to indicate that such a desirable change has not yet occurred in Fiji. fl District Officer Bill Purdy, of New Guinea, was married to Miss Ruth McMurtrie, of Sydney, at Vaucluse, Sydney, in February. The couple returned to New Guinea after honeymooning in Tasmania.
fl Major-General L. E. C. ] Perowne, CB, CBE, General Offic Commanding the 17th Gurk] Division (of which the Ist Battalic Fiji Infantry Regiment, has form a part) will pay a brief visit to Fi from Malaya, in March, travelli; aboard one of the RAF transpc aircraft which carries a periodic draft of troops from and to Malaj While in Fiji, General Perowne w be the guest of the Fiji Gover ment.