WAR MADE FIJIANS’ FEET TENDER
NEW YORK. For more than 40 years Fiji has prided itself on its giant barefooted native policemen in their white skirts called SU Until recently, regulations prohibited haircuts, trousers, and shoes for the savage-looking emissaries of the law. When the police paraded to welcome the new British Governor of Fiji, Sii Brian Freeston, recently, men were drooping out of the ranks to pick bits of hot tar from their toes. “It was the • blasted war, said the Police Commissioner, after officers had reported that the natives’ feet were tender by the' wearing of military boots. , , , . So the feet that once trod rough bush tracks and coral reefs unflinchingly are today clad in sandal-type shoes. Sizes are 12 to 14!
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22931, 27 April 1949, Page 8
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124WAR MADE FIJIANS’ FEET TENDER Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 22931, 27 April 1949, Page 8
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