NEWS FROM FIJI.
LOAN FLOATED IN LONDON. SHARK CAUGHT AT SUVA WHARF. (Prom Our Own Correspondent.) SUVA, November 26. His Excellency, the Governor has received advices that the Fiji loan for £182,500 for public works has been floated in London, at 99, bearing interest at 3 per cent and redeemable in 1970, with the option to redeem in 1960 or after. Sinking fund contributions will" be not less than 1 per cent per annum. At the annual banquet of St. Andrew's Guild, occasion was taken to make a presentation to the minister, the Rev. D. McCosh, M.A., who has sailed on a six months' vacation in New Zealand. He has been suffering from rheumatism, and hopes to return benefited by the change. The pulpit will be filled for three months by tile Bev. T. H. Roseveare, of New Zealand. Early yesterday morning George Houng Lee secured his thirteenth shark after a hard fight which lasted, for half an hour. Fishing from his favourite corner of King's wharf, George fought t',3 great fish, which measured 10ft 7in, until it tired, but all the efforts of a squad of hefty Fijians could not land the . monster, which was towed to the Prince's Landing and lifted out by a crane.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 285, 1 December 1934, Page 14
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