A Serious Matter!...

«r Mr. H. W. Halstead, who was Radio Engineer in the Posts and Telegraphs Department in Fiji, has retired. He joined the Department in 1918, and was appointed to his pre-retiring post in 1949. He and Mrs. Halstead have left Fiji to live in Auckland.

t An indication of current 1 values in Noumea was seen rec© when the local council offi several building blocks at aucc They had a starting price equs £7OO Australian. The highest h paid was 300,000 francs (£2,000) ; block of about one-fifth of an 5

Mrs. Anetta Ragg, of Suva, Fiji, was enter tained by relations and friends, to celebrate he attainment of her 80th birthday. Mrs.

Ragg looks serious as she carefully counts the candles on her birthday cake, to be sure that the full 80 are there. (Photo: Stinsons).