I read with interest on 22.08.16 Monday FT one of Savenaca Vakaliwaliwa’s letter on the seasonal workers development in Australia and the flourishing scheme in BC. Delta, Canada.

To SV, you have seen the opening but for us here as rural dwellers, we are all in dire need despite trying.

For any breath of hope, your enlightenment would be most paramount please.

It is the first time ever for the Deans Trophy to travel from Viti Levu to the North just for us here to have a quick glean on the priceless ware and how the under-18 boys won it despite their isolation and dispersed adopted schools.

Anyhow, the other night we had a quiet, moving celebration here in Labasa as the president of PTA from Suva, Roko Alipate, brought the Deans trophy to us here in the North culminating with the Rio 7s celebration.

Only in the North, a 44 gallon drum was carried in the middle of the street by a single gentleman with a woman seen beating it through from the rear end.

Imagine as the parade procession from the Y-corner proceeded towards town, the beating of a 44 gallon drum came exactly from the opposite. What a day! What a joyous scene.