Two angles on Fiji's sugar industry

The photo at left by Rob Wright is not a close-up of a floor rug, but of cane farming near Nadi, Fiji. In the ploughed centre-field the minute white dot is a tractor and plough.

Meanwhile at nearby Lautoka, Fijians of South Pacific Sugar Mills lay down polythene film to form one of two 14C ft long storage pits for molasses.

Another sheet of polythene will cover the pit. It is an emergency measure made necessary by the world shortage of bulk liquid tankers because of the closure of the Suez Canal, and the method is still experimental. The polythene sheets are 150 ft long by 70 ft wide, and were made in Australia by ICIANZ. Each pit holds 1,500 tons of molasses.

In Wellington recently, Perekira Puepue mai, of Western Samoa (pictured top lef), and Mr. G. Collins, of the NZ Department of External Affairs, study the English Language Institute's diploma presented to Mrs. Mata'itusi Simanu at Victoria University. Puepue mai and Mrs.

Simanu, also of Western Samoa, had been studying the teaching of English for 12 months at the institute, left, Tongan nurse Miss A.

Heimuli, of Nukualofa, receives congratulations from NZ Director-General of Health, Dr. D. P. Kennedy, on obtaining her diploma for public health administration and teaching in Wellington. Miss M. Mata Tumua, of Apia Western Samoa (pictured top right) also received a diploma from Dr. Kennedy, in nursing service administration. Below, a happy group at a recent meeting of the Polynesian Association in Sydney, photographed by J. Reilly. They are from left, Mr. and Mrs. Ted Hopkins (Mrs. Hopkins is from Nadi, Fiji), George Mapaika, of Suva, and Ratu and Adi N. Dawai, from Nadi.