heated imaginations Police calmly

explained that the men involved were security men doing a little per fectly legitimate roof-hopping. They were carrying not rifles, but walkie talkie radio sets.

Apart from the weather, for which no one could be blamed, the general feeling was, as the Britannia pulled away into Suva Harbour, to the strains of Isa Lei, that the Queen’s fourth visit to Fiji had been a great success.

Countries remaining to be visited by the Queen on her latest Pacific tour were New Zealand, Australia and Papua New Guinea.