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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 September 1955Vol. XXVI, No.2

Fijian AMP

p. 86 · Read in the full issue

Sydney Interest in Fijian AMP

MOST publicised Fijian visitor t) Sydney since the 1952 Rugbc team is AMP Aseri Manulevu In the last three months all fou. daily papers and at least one Sunc day paper have featured him b: way of interviews, pictures ani columnists’ notes.

On August 16, the Sun com mented that when the Fijian visitor —36 years old, 6ft 6 in. tall am 17 st 14 lb in weight—walks alone a Sydney street, “he makes the average man look like a half-pint.”"

AMP Aseri, a well-known figun at the Vatukoula goldmines, i undergoing a course in public healtf and industrial hygiene.

Despite Sydney’s desperate hous. ing shortage, he has secured a hous at Maroubra, where he is estafcf lished with his wife and their twv elder sons.