Fiji Indians and Empire Day

TWO young men fom Fiji, Messrs.

Edward Caleb and Daniel Mastapha, Fiji Indians who are studying for the Methodist ministry in Adelaide, were in Broken Hill, NSW. on Empire Day. In response to an invitation, they issued an Empire Day message, in which the following loyal sentiments were ex pressed : “On this Empire Day we wish to bring to you people the sincere greetings of the people of Fiji. This day reminds us that we are all members of a vast family. . . The

people of different races live to gether harmoniously and happily in Fiji. At present there is a growing desire for higher education among the younger generation. The need is seen for training young indigen ous leaders who can adequately and wisely meet the challenge and problems of the present and future. . . . We in Fiji, welcome with glad hearts, any strengthening of the bonds which unite the different countries of the Empire.” t Commercial statistics recently issued in Noumea, New Caledonia, show that there is one storekeeper for every 12 persons in Noumea and

one shopkeeper for every 25 perj m the countryside. Commenting this, PlM’s correspondent says t] every month sees more shops go up, particularly for Indo-Chiri whose greatest ambition appears be to serve behind a counter. 1 t Two natives in Lifu IslJ Loyalty group, sawed at the trl of a palm which a gale had bid over. Its high mass of roots 1 leit a deep hole in the ground. Tti three children were playing neal Suddenly the trunk parted, and] root mass fell back. Two of ] children were thrown clear, but was swept into the hole, and kil as the mass of roots and earth i on top of her.