Thish Honour For Pacific Islands Regiment
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t The School Times Annual of the well known Fiji-Indian institution Shri Vivekananda High School, of Nadi, Fiji, is again to hand. It con tains much information about this cultural establishment, and about Fiji educational conditions, and the cultural conditions and standards of ancient India. It is noted that 1957 is the 2,500 th anniversary of the death of Buddha, described as “the aposTe of non-violence and com
passion.” Articles on life and opportunities in Fiji are contributed by leading citizens—lndian, Euro pean and Fijian.
A unique ceremony took place on February 12, when the Pipers of the Pacific Islands Regiment, of Papua and New Guinea, were presented by the Administrator (Brigadier D. M. Cleland) with a Pipe Banner, sent specially from Scotland by Lora Rowallan, the Chief Scout, who visited the Territories last year.
The photographs (by Papuan Prints) show a leading piper with the new Banner attached to his pipes; and a close-up of the In scription on the banner.