CLUB OPENED
NEW ZEALAND TROOPS IN FIJI
A club for the New Zealand Forces serving in Fiji was opened in Suva recently by the Governor of Fiji, Sir Harrv Luke. Finance for the building of the new premises was provided by the National Patriotic Fund Board of New Zealand, which also made available the funds for the erection and maintenance of two large recreational huts that have ■ been established ■at different points on the island. A talking-picture plant has been sent, and is to be installed shortly in one of the huts, and another is under purchase for the other hut. The club at Suva will be the social centre of the troops garrisoned on the island. It has been built on a splendid site made available by the Fiji Government, and, besides having a pleasing appearance inside and out. offers generous facilities to the soldier. Prominently associated with the planning of the building were Lieutenant-colonel McKillop, who is well known as assistant city engineer at Wellington, and Lieutenant Hitchcock. At the opening ceremony the officer commandiiig the troops in Fiji expressed gratitude to the National Patriotic Fund Board for makipg the funds available for the building and paid tribute to the work done on behalf ’of the troops by residents of Suva, headed by Bishop Kempthorne,
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24635, 17 June 1941, Page 2
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217CLUB OPENED Otago Daily Times, Issue 24635, 17 June 1941, Page 2
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