CLUB OPENED

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 120, 23 June 1941, Page 2

CLUB OPENED

N.Z. TROOPS IN FIJI GENEROUS FACILITIES A club for the New Zealand Forccs serving in Fiji was opened in Suva recently by the Gtv.rnotof Fiji, Sir Harry Luk?;. Finance for the building of the r.ew premises was provided by the National Patriotic Fund Board r." New Zealand, which also made avail able the funds for the: ercctlon an:; maintenance of two rtvrf iional huts that have been eslablished at different points' on the inland. A talking picture p'avst i'.a< been sent and is to 1)° ins'nlle:: shortly in one of the huts, and another is under purchase* for tho other hut. The club at Suva will be the social centre of the troops garrisoned on the island. It has bern built on a splendid site made available cy the Fiji Government and besWs having a pleasing appearance insrde and out, offers generous facilities, to the soldier. Prominently associated with the planning of tho building were Lieutenant-Colonel McKiliop, who is well known as Ass ; star.< City Engineer at Wellington, and Lieutenant Hitchcock. At the opening ceiremony the Officer Commanding the troops In expressed gratitude to the National Patriotic Fund Board for making the funds available for the building and paid tribute to the work done on behalf of the troops by residents of Suva, headed by his Lordship Bishop Kempthorne.