AN ISLAND’S “IDENTITY”
FIJI’S VETERAN SCHOOLMASTER Dominion Special Service. Auckland, October 4. A picturesque figure in his suit of white drill and white sun helmet, Mr. Garner Jones, the veteran schoolmaster of Fijian Islands, stepped ashore from the Tofua at Queen’s Wharf to-day after an absence of 20 years. Mr. Garner Jones is a Welshman bv birth, but he came to New Zealand many years ago, and was on the original staff of the Napier Street School. Now, at the end of 35 years’ work as schoolmaster at Levuka, he has come to Auckland to undergo an operation for cataract. Failing eyesight is the veteran’s only physical disability, for he is hale atid hearty despite his long years under tropic skies. If there could be an “old identity” for the South Sea Islands, it is surely Mr. Jones. He has known every Governor of Fiji since Sir John Bate Thurston, and many New Zealand notabilities have lived under his hospitable roof.
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Dominion, Volume 21, Issue 9, 5 October 1927, Page 10
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