Travel For Pleasure

A constable of the Fiji PolicA Force last month went to sea\ in the China Steam Navigation ] Co. ship “Chefoo”. There is nothing unusual in a policemam going to sea, but in this easel the constable went as a stowA away.

The “Chefoo” was 500 milei out of Fiji on its way to Balbod in the Panama Canal ZovA before he was discovered. And he was not on his own, for witm him were a couple of Fijiansl one of them well known in international sport.

The constable was Gustan Adloph Netzler, of the Lautokal Police, and it is reasonably safe to assume that he will not be a policeman much longer.

The sportsman was i Aminisitai Burogelevu, a member of thd Fijian rugby team which toured Australia in 1954, and a grand forward he was, too. Aminisitai l or Sitai as he was always known ] had several brushes with the\ law, the latest of which occurred during the curfew imposed durA mg the rioting in Suva in DeA cember, 1959 Sitai then tried to take a rifle away from a member of the Special Constabulary, and was shot in a thigh in the proA cess. He spent several months in hospital before he was abld to appear in court to answen a charge.

The third stowaway wa si William Peniati. They will probably be returned to Fiji from Balboa by first availably ship.