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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 June 1956Vol. XXVI, No.11

New Police Chief for Fiji

p. 164 · Read in the full issue

t Governor Toby, of French Oceania, accompanied by the Attorney - General, his private Secretary and the administrator in charge of the islands, visited the Tuamotus and the Marqucas Islands in May.

t At an estimated cost of £20,000, a new dormitory is now under con struction at Siuilikutapu College in Neiafu, Vavau, Tonga. The two story frame structure which will be able to accommodate approximately 200 girls is the most recent unit in the Wesleyan Church’s extensive building programme there. Although the project is being supervised by Mr. A. Pearson, of Australia, who was in charge of building the big church in Nuku’alofa, wiiich was opened in 1952, all the labour is be ing supplied by the people of Vava’u, who are likewise responsible for the entire cost.

t Sister Mary Justin, SM. former I; in charge of the Convent of th*.

Sacred Heart in Neiafu. Vavau Tonga, who has been in ill-healtl in Tongatapu for the past fev months, is on her way to Australis for further medical treatment ant rest.

Fiji's new Police Commissioner, Mr. R. H. T Beaumont, formerly Deputy Commissioner Sierra Leone, inspects a guard-of-honour upon his arrival in Suva on April 27. From left {?] right, Sub-Inspector Uraia Moku; Deputy Commissioner R. O. Hassall; Superintendent A.

Pyster; and the Commissioner, in civilian clothes.

Photo: Public Relations Office