Fiji Fashions
pp. 105-107 · Read in the full issue
For Sydney
Young Suva designer Cherie Whiteside will bring the colour and gaiety of Fijian fabrics to Sydney during October when she exhibits her designs at an inter national trade fair. Cherie also took these photographs.
Modeling her clothes is niece Andra. Top left, Andra relaxing in wide white pants, slit at the ankles, with an all-over Polynesian print in black and brown. The neat belted top is black, as is the lining of the slacks.
Top right Andra poses sexily in two rectangular pieces of material joined only from below the arms to thigh level, making this a loosely draped long dress for evening wear. Its' been dubbed a tobana, Fijian word for wings. Scarlet cotton, printed with black and white and lined with black. Left Andra reclines grace fully at the bar of the Fijian Hotel dressed to kill in lime green patio culottes, banded with a border design in mustard and navy blue. —SUE WENDT.
Recent graduate from the School for Dental Nurses, Wellington, NZ, was Nurse Maara Hosking, of Raro tonga, Cook Islands. Photograph above was taken when she received her certificate and medallion. At right, an attractive bevy of Fijian women swimmers made this picture at the South Pacific Games in Port Moresby. From left to right they are L. Prohert, O.
Pickering, S. Murphy and L. Emberson. -Photo: Chin H. Meen.
Three hopeful entrants in the Hibiscus Festival's Baby Show await the judges' decision at the New Town Hall in Suva. The show, a popular event in the festival, drew a field of more than 100 babies, aged between a month and three years.
Mr. Claude Griffiths, 78, the only surviving son of the founder of "The Fiji Times", placed a wreath on his father's grave at the Suva Cemetery on September 5, the day after the newspaper celebrated its centenary. With Mr.
Griffiths are a great-great-grandson of the newspaper's founder, Mr. Stephen Marshall, of Sydney, and Mr. R. W.
Robson, managing director of Pacific Publications Pty. Ltd., owners of the daily. Mr. Griffiths, who lives in New Zealand, was making his first trip to Fiji in 50 years, and was "astonished" at the changes.—Photo: Bal Ram.
Sir Guy Powles, 12 years High Com missioner in Western Samoa, and Lady Powles, seen below signing the register at the NZ Military Cemetery in Bourail, New Caledonia. The couple recently have been making a tour through the Islands, which has taken them to Fiji, Tonga, New Caledonia and Western Samoa. They renewed many old friendships. In Noumea they were guests of the local rpresen tative of the 3 NZ Division, Alan Mackay, at a reception.
There's nothing puny about the cabbages they grow out around Labasa, Vanua Levu, in Fiji. Shamima Bi, right, needed both hands and arms to support this monster, 17 lb in weight and 32 inches wide. The vegetable was exhibited by the Balebasoga Public School at a recent Junior Farmers club show at Labasa.