Their Pockets are

Hard Hit'

From a Suva Correspondent e pocket of the Suva public hard hit this year in a series ppeals and carnival weeks, all ned to raise money for worthy ?s. Hospital Week started the rolling, then came a combined John Ambulance-Red Cross ival week, and finally Hibiscus c, although the last-named is med more for entertainment for making money. between, there were numerous itreet days to help raise funds io send a team to the Olympic es, to send a hockey team to Zealand, to build a grandstand uckhurst Park, etc. va citizens have always been rous in their response to als, but long-suffering they ly began to ask, “Where will i end?” i attempt to combine Hospital s and the Hibiscus Festival met strong opposition, but it did to a useful airing of views h seemed to show that with the times Fiji has experienced year, mainly because of the r crisis, the public has just t had enough. aat to do about it is the problem, most every city in the world had to face up to similar lems at some time or other, iless some of the appeals are Dined, organisations will soon themselves raising much less i they expect, no matter how hy their cause may be.