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MAY 1, <strong>2018</strong><br />
10 Fijiink<br />
Kiwis open their hearts to flood victims<br />
Venkat Raman<br />
venkat@indiannewslink.co.nz<br />
New Zealanders are yet<br />
again demonstrating their<br />
compassion and readiness<br />
to help people in distress,<br />
especially the victims of the recent<br />
Tropical Cyclones and resultant<br />
floods in Fiji.<br />
Two containers, both 20 feet long,<br />
left the shores of Auckland for Fiji<br />
on April 26, <strong>2018</strong>, containing essential<br />
supplies donated by people<br />
from various parts of Auckland.<br />
Volunteers have been helping in<br />
the efforts by collecting food items,<br />
other ration supplies, items of children,<br />
books and stationery and so<br />
on.<br />
Two men are behind the latest<br />
efforts- Fiji’s Honorary Consul in<br />
Auckland Harish Lodhia and businessman<br />
Jagdish Punja.<br />
Four Containers to go<br />
Mr Lodhia said that the aim was<br />
to send at least four 20-feet containers<br />
carrying useful material for<br />
the cyclone-torn Fiji and affected<br />
people.<br />
“We are grateful a number of<br />
agencies and to the people of New<br />
Zealand for their timely help and<br />
s p a c e<br />
Harish Lodhia carrying a suitcase containing<br />
supplies as Jagdish Punja (standing inside a<br />
Container looks on)<br />
support. Our government is doing<br />
its best to rehabilitate people affected.<br />
We hope to send two 20-feet containers<br />
next week,” he said.<br />
Mr Lodhia said that the containers<br />
are stationed at 66A Stoddard<br />
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Goods at low prices<br />
Mr Punja said that a wholesale<br />
warehouse has offered below its<br />
normal warehouse price to those<br />
purchasing goods for the ‘Fiji Flood<br />
Appeal.’<br />
“My Company, J Punja NZ Limited<br />
is located at 31 Ha Crescent in Wiri,<br />
Auckland. Anyone can pay online<br />
giving their name, mentioning that<br />
the purchase is ‘Fiji Flood Relief.’<br />
Thereafter, we will send the invoice<br />
and deliver free of cost to the container.<br />
Alternatively, you can purchase<br />
goods from anywhere and<br />
deliver the items to our Centre in<br />
Wiri,” he said.<br />
Mr Punja said that clothes should<br />
be packed in cartons and any food<br />
donated should be non-perishable<br />
and contain unexpired items.<br />
For further details, please contact<br />
Jagdish Punja on 022-6848200.<br />
Rabuka objects to ‘Fijian’ label for all<br />
Sourced Content (Edited)<br />
Social Democratic Liberal<br />
Party Leader Sitiveni<br />
Rabuka has said that he<br />
has reservations on using<br />
‘Fijian’ as a common name following<br />
the adoption of the 2013<br />
Constitution.<br />
Speaking to law students at<br />
the University of Fiji earlier this<br />
week, he said that personally he<br />
has three reservations on the<br />
common name.<br />
He said that the people of Fiji<br />
were never consulted about<br />
the name change and that it<br />
was imposed, just like the unilateral<br />
revocation of the 1997<br />
Constitution and removal and<br />
abolition of the Great Council<br />
of Chiefs.<br />
Right to consultation<br />
Mr Rabuka said that the people<br />
of Fiji have a right to be consulted<br />
and to be heard on this<br />
very important issue.<br />
He said that the 2013<br />
Constitution, for the first time<br />
in Fiji’s constitutional history,<br />
has allowed a Fiji citizen to hold<br />
citizenship of a foreign State<br />
Sitiveni Rabuka in Suva, Fiji<br />
(Picture from Fiji Sun, under a Special<br />
Arrangement)<br />
simultaneously.<br />
“This dual nationality is a good<br />
thing in the context of our globalised<br />
world but it creates the<br />
dubious situation about a person’s<br />
patriotic loyalty and attachment<br />
to Fiji when one is at the<br />
same time the national of another<br />
State,” he said.<br />
Mr Rabuka said that his third<br />
reservation was that it ignores<br />
the group rights and self-determination<br />
of indigenous iTaukei and<br />
Rotuman people.<br />
The above Report has been published<br />
by <strong>Indian</strong> <strong>Newslink</strong> under<br />
a Special Agreement with<br />
Fiji Broadcasting Corporation<br />
(FBC News).<br />
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