ROYAL TOUR

Taranaki Daily News, 23 April 1920, Page 5

ROYAL TOUR

THE PRINCE AT SUVA. SEES HOW FIJIANS LIVE, By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright. Suva, April £l. lhis morning His Royal Hiahness bestowed the accolade on Sir Cecil isodwcll, Governor of Fiji. The matter iws arranged as a surprise for Sir Cecil, who recently received the KC.M.G. In the afternoon, after attending the war dance of Fijians the Prince went out in, a motor with the Governor and Captain Joske, the Governor's aide-de-camp, leaving his own 'staff behind. I noted by Captain Ellis, president of ■he Returned Soldiers' Association, the Prince drove through the bush to the farthest point practicable on the road, then alighted and walked with the Gov- : ernor and Captain Joske, two miles to the Native village of Tamavua. In Fijian social life the household is the unit of civilisation, a village consisting of a number of households under the general supervision of a headman. I his headman at Tamavua was absent on the occasion of the Prince's visit, but the Prince entered the Native houses fciiilt of woven reeds with thatched rcofs. The people cams out and recognised the Governor and Captsun Joske and -hen said in their own language- "That must be the Prince." Greatly interested, they crowded round and closelv inspected him. He tried on them a few words of the Fijian language he had picked up, ending with "Samothia." meaning "good night." . He remarked afterwards that he had E'eatly enjoyed his first glimpse of the real domestic life of the Fijians.—Aus - -N.Z, Cable Assn.