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(BUILT BY FARMERS FOR FARMERS) I MILE WEST OF MITCHELL PH. 34843631 • • WANT ADS BRINGQUICK RESULTS: Dial .527-0240 Safety-Tefted • USED 'CAR, SA AT HURON COUNTY'S FINEST USti) CAR MARKET 1968 Galaxy 500 Sedan with 390 engine 3-1966 Chevrolets, V-8, power steering A number of 1966 Chevrolets, Pontiacs and Fords, sedans, hardtops, 6 and 8 cylinders, fully equipped. TIk- of 1 (This is the See.011.41 latter in 4 series 14, mi.& AkX4rikey, for- , merlY Anne $hOrtreed of Wal - 1 on, as she writes eArouto to I her new frame in Australia), tf• Suva, Viti Levi, Fiji IslandS: August 1, 1967 Our plane 'from Honolulu, if International Airp rt at Nandi BOAC VC -10 'jet, lansled at the which is also situated -on the island of Viti Lent the Most important in the, group of al- most three. hundred Fiji Is- lands. We had skipped over Sunday completely, having left Hawaii at U .p.m. Saturday night and arrived „Fiji at 4 Our driver was an East b- ean. on Monday morning. This (lien as most drivers of public of course was because we had vehicles in that country seem crossed the International Date to be; and they .all -drive the line during' the night Incident- same way — like maniacs. ally, the dateline makes a Fiji is a most interesting slight jog to,,the right when it country and has a •history- comeseen d to the Fiji Elands, other_ which is no less intetjesting; It wise a city would have bi- became a British CroWn Colony vided, in time' so ,that half the after Fiji petitioned the Belt - population would be eicperiene. lsh governMent for a period of ing Monday while the other fifteen- years to be allowed to half was going to.. •church on join the British Empire. This Sunday! To go, from Nandi, at 'request was caused due to the the northwest corner of Viti inability of the Man people -td Levu to Cuva which is in' the pay off a large debt to the Un - southern part of the Island; we ited States which had been in - had to take a light plane trip curred . when a US military Which lasted about 45 minutes. building was damaged . suppos- It was a beautiful clear day edly by some Fijians. (winter to them) so that we At anyi,rate, Britian finally could see quite 'plainly the ter- agreed to take Fiji as cure' of rain over which we flew. That her colonies and King Cakobau is, I looked at the scenery when who formerly had been a fierce I wasn't trying to ' contain my cannibal promptly gave up his stomach everytime we hit an barbaric ways and showed -his good faith and loyalty to Queen Victoria by presenting her with his war club. It has been made into a mace and is now used ceremonially in the Fijian Leg- islature. Although Cakobau may have set a good example for his ,s.ub- jeet4 it was not necessarily fol- lowed so that many a 'poor white missionary lost his life in trying to bring Christian be- liefs to these savage people. In fact its commonly believed that the last white missionary was eaten in the Fiji Islands as late as 1867. • The Fijians of today are tot at all like, their barbaric ances- tors. They belong to the Melan- esian (Black Islanders) race and are mostly tall, dark skinn- ed,well built people with black fu22y hair which js kept in this state with ,the aid of a , flat, long -toothed comb.- Most of the men cut their's short in the Western- style" but the women adhere to the' , bouffant curls. Western dress has been adopt- ed almost completely in Suva ralthodgh there were, a 'few in- teresting variations. •For the men, these were leather san- dals on bare feet, and ,wrap- around skirts with pointed scal- lops at the bottom edge of black, grey, blue or beige wor- sted; for the women, it was an hire Trip N to Australja air Pocket. I have never ben Ordivary cotton print dress' toe fond of light plane flights such as any Canadian, hese. at any time and this particular Wife would wear but Under. one Was not exactly conducive neath was an linderskirt of tile to my peace of• mind, in -fact 1 sante or contrasting •material was racfst amazed to find that which reached tO the ankles. we had landed safely on the The Fijians a.re apparengY Suva• airstrip and net been a very happy-go-lucky t3eople dashed.to ,pieces on the menu- with a good" sense of huanintr. tains or thrown headfirst into 'Although most of them speak the Pacifie. Our journey to very good EngliSh. if they have Suva was not quite over yet been able to ge to school, they however. The •passeegers who still, talk to each other in their had „disembarked front the o'Wn tongue—They laugh and plane then climbed into ws,mall joke a great deal among them - bus for the trip into the city Selves and even with foreigners itself Which would be about occasionally." eight miles from the aiwort. They are also extremely musi- cal and a school choir from the islands has gained quite a, name for itself. Their dancing Igo, is quite an art, although we unfortunately did not have tune to visit a Fijian village and see one of these perform- ances on this trip. t Perhaps -because Qf this easy going attitude towards life, the -Fijians are not veryfond of hard work, especially in the white man's sense of the werds. So when Britian took over Fiji, labourers for the sugar cane plantations had! to be found. Since there was a shortage of lahour in Fiji for various rea- sons, 'indentured Labour) was brought over from India by the British government. The In- dians have stayedever since and multiplied in great numbers, al- though indenturing has long since passed from existence. Many of the Indians living in Fiji today myst`be descendents of those , brought over nearly a' hundred years ago. The start- ling and rather - disturbing thing, is 'that now the Indian population is greater than the native Fijian popelation. There have been some speculations, whether true or .not, that the Indians who are shrewder busi- ness/nen and eager to educate themselves, may Possibly take the top government positions away from the Fijians, if and when Britian relinquishes her .seirereignity over the colony. However;" -these are only specu- lations, and the average man in the 'street doesn't seem too con- cerned' about them at the mom- ent. The' third group of people inhabiting the islands are the white Europeans, mostly of British, New Zealand or Aus- tralian background, who have been teaching and training the natives in the ways of white education, government -and oth- er dealings.Next week I would like to tell you, about the manager of the hotel at ;which we stayed. This man, a New Zealander, drove us around Suva and its suburban districts and told us a great many 'interesting -things about it as we went along. 'blue coal' Champion Stove and • Furnace Oil WILLIS DUNDAS Office 527,0150 Res. 527-1053 . 1966 Pontiac Parisienne 4 -door H.T. • 1965 Mercury 2:dopr T. 1965 Ford Galaxie ir.zoo, 2 -door, RT A wide selection of 1965 and 1964 Chevs., Pontiacs and Fords, sedans, hardtops, var- • ious,. models, 6 and &cylinders. 1983 Chev. Be/air, 6 -cylinder, power steering 1964 Chevrolet Imala Convertible, V-8, pow- er. equipped A wide variety of -1960 to 196* models , to choose from. 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The young farmerfrom Sea - forth, in Southern Ontario, look- ed over a section of •16-7 acres, with a house and barn in a 10 - acre clearing and decided to buy it. The Grieves paid $2,400 for the property, lived there for 44 Years and raised- four sons. Cleared farmland around 'Mon- etville now fetches $45 and more an acre. • Memories of 'those early -days • in 'Sudbury district, when set- tlers were few and far between, were recalled at a recent fam- ily party, when Tem and Ruth Grieve celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary. • The festive gathering, in the Mandarin Motor Hotel, .was ar- ranged by 'their four sons, John, Donald and Robert, of Sudbury, - and the only Married son and his Wife and ohildren, Mr. and Mrs. Rugh Grieve, of Val 'Car- on, with Gary, Glen, Karen and Lynn. A son Kenneth was kil- led fir the Seeon& World War, while an infant son, Gordon, died in 194, • rt was on April 10, 1917, that Thomas C. Grieve married Ruth Gossel ' in the horde of the bride's widowed •mother, yrs. Cristal Gossel, 6th concession, Huron, in Ripley, near Kincar- dine. Before coining north to Monetville, they lived on •a farm at Seaforth for six years. Ag- ents for lumber mills in the 'UnitedStates paid six• ddllars Ord for logs from the Moine& vine tanners, 'The cordwood was Shipped by scow across Lake NiPissing. Par fier golden wedding 'a- ,,Cafolt iliVertery, •Kre, Grieve wore a 911k, jacket' dregs in a paisley Patenr and' 'a ,etimage4 of yot; 4 ,.. iivi 7aria, . .,.1,4ittrtitto•- tivwvontott,ndittiv., ,,,, , , .. . ,,,„,..,,,,,,,._,,.,:, ,_,,,,,,„ „„,,,,„ : ,,., _,, , ,..,,,..,, ,,......„,„,..„..,7;,:,...,,,,....,.,-; ,„,,,:.,•:-=:,-- t,.., '44,..• . • , , ,... .„ • t , • ,. , , ' • ....,,,,,,,,,,,t,,,,,te ,....,,,,,,,-•.,4...t,r.;:WJ4J.4AJJY,,,tlt,d4A. I ...L.,,,,,:,4.4.,...4,1,41.,..,,,,,I,40Llutik41.44t...14,,La'th....1%?..i. A ...444, d .1)...i.,I1,t,,,,,,''':;.4 • . low -Talisman roses. The couple received many handsome and useful gifts from their children, relatives and friends; including a pair of matching chairs. A set of centen- nial coins Was presented by the' grandchildren. Congratulatory telegrams came from Prime Minister Les- ter Pearson, the Governor Gen- eral aq other dignitaries and from friends. Out-of-town guests included, Mrs. Walter Hauser of Toledo, Ohl. 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