Officer's Widow Goes
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Home to Fiji
Mrs. Heather Genge, Widow
of Major Robert Genge, who was killed by Communist terror ists in a jungle ambush in Malaya while serving with the Fijian troops, arrived at Sydney on March 14 on her way home to Fiji from Malaya. With her were her chil dren, Christine, aged 8, Robert (5) and a baby daughter, Talei, who was born only a fortnight before her father’s death.
In a Sydney press interview, Mrs.
Genge said that Major Genge had visited her at Kluang Hospital on
February 29, the day after she had been taken to hospital suffering from food poisoning. On the way back to barracks at Labis (Johore) with three Fijian soldiers, he was shot dead in the first burst of fire from the concealed terrorists. Lieut.
Toganivalu suffered a leg wound, but the other two soldiers were not in jured. t P-NG’s first Santa Gertrudis cattle, imported from Darling Downs, Queensland, comprise three young bulls worth £A1,750. They will be shipped to the Territory. They will be crossed with Shorthorn cows at a cattle property owned by W. R.
Carpenter and Co., Rabaul.