NEWS FROM FIJI.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20114, 27 November 1928, Page 9

NEWS FROM FIJI.

HOSPITALITY TO VISITORS. NEW ZEALANDERS* COMING VISIT. [HiOM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT. ] SUVA, Kov. 22. Ths Fiji Planters' Association, having invited the Ne\y Zealand business men who intend making the trip to Samoa next year to return by Fiji, aro making arraignments for their entertainment. The Suva Chamber of Commerce will entertain them at a luncheon on the day of their arrival if it is finally decided tlfiat they make the visit.

Fiji's first troop of Girl Guides has beei: enrolled by Spoilt Commissioner Cau;;hley. Fifteen Fijian girls who have beer: in training for some time under tho Missies Lucas and McDonald, have enrolled, and they will be used as the nucleus of a large organisation, as many mors Fijian girls are anxious to join. The troop paraded to tho Jubilee Church in full uniform on Armistice Day. When a steer was killed at a local slaughterhouse it was found to have two perfectly developed kidneys lying close up to each other on one side.

Tie Suva Chamber of Commerce has appointed Sir Maynard Hedstrom, and Messrs. H. Marks, C. B. Joske and D. W. Amos a committee to prepare recommendations for the abolition of the income tax and the substitution of a more equitable forn of taxation, the recommendations to be iiist submitted to the chamber for approval. It is felt that as the income tax affects but few Europeans it is not wide eno.igh in its scope.

The 91st annual Fiji Methodist Synod opejied on Wednesday morning last week, when every European Methodist missionary at present in the colony was present, and many Fijian missionaries and laymen.

A new organ, the gift of an anonymous donor, is being installed at Holy Trinity Church of England. It is valued at £1350.

Two more European sub-inspectors are to be added to the strength of the Fiji constabulary for service in Suva. The estimated expenditure of the colony for 1929 is £621,335. An old colonist, Mr. Peter Campbell, has died at Navua.

Hollins Crompton has retained the title of champion of tho Fiji Golf Club. He defeated Stevenson, of Eewa, in tho final l>v 4 and 3.

Mrs. J- N. Mills, of Washington, who spent several months' holiday in Fiji early this year as the guest of Dr. and Mm. Tothill, was a passenger on the illfated Vestris and was drowned when the boats wero being launched. Mr. C. L. Southull, Government chemist, has been promoted ,to a. position as assistant analyist in the Agriculture Department of the Straits Settlements.