THE PRINCE ON TOUR.
VISIT TO FIJI. DOMESTIC LIFE OF NATIVES. H.R.H. PAYS UNEXPECTED CALL AT VILLAGE. United Press Association —CopynjrlitSUVA. April 21. This morning His Royal Highness bestowed a decoration on Sir Cecil Rodwell, Governor of Fiji. The matter was arranged as a surprise for Sir Cecil, "'ho recently received the K.C.M.G. In the afternoon, after attending a war dance of Fijians, the Prince went out for a drive with the Governor, and Captain Joske. the Governor’s aide-de-camp. Leaving his own car behind, piloted by Captain Ellis, president of the Returned Soldiers’ Association, the Prince drove through the hush to the furthest point of practicable road; then alighted and walked with the Governor and Captain Joske two miles to a native village of Tamavua. In Fijian social life the households are under the gen' eral supervision of a headman. Tin's headman at Tamavua was absent on the occasion of the Prince’s visit, but the Prince entered a native house built of woven reeds with thatched roofs. The people c-ame out and recognised the Governor and Captain Joske; then said in their own language “That must be the Prince.” Greatly interested they crowded round and closely inspected him. He tried on them a few words of Fijian language he had picked up. ending “samathi,” meaning “good-night. He remarked afterwards that he had greatly enjoyed his first glimpse of the real domestic life of the Fijians. —U.P.A.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LII, Issue 5461, 23 April 1920, Page 5
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