A School With The Right Idea
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Suva’s Indian business community actively supports one of Fiji’s most icful institutions—the Gujerat Education Society’s Mahatma Gandhi Memorial •imary School, Suva. The school is open to all promising students, and it atures technical training in some of the higher trades, agricultural education, id the systematic teaching of English—all matters of importance in the anning of the future Fiji. The students’ gardens are an interesting spectacle, ae boys and girls, under the direction of senior master Dhaniram, learn how grow food on their own plots—and their enthusiasm is such that they keep i cultivating, although frequently robbed by hoodlums who raid the garden night. Photographs show the school, pupils at work in the gardens, and me of the men who support the school. Left to right—Mr Pandaram, technical structor; Mr. Narain Singh, headmaster; Mr. S. B. Desai, a leading Suva isinessman, who is secretary of the Education Society; and Mr. Dhaniram.