Fiji Airways

Doubt About Future of Service

THE directors of Fiji Airways, Ltd., whose head office is in Adelaide, in a memorandum to shareholders dated Janu ary 27, report that the ten months’ opera tions of the Company have been disappoint ing and that they have been trying to secure better support from both the Gov ernment and public of Fiji. They say frankly that they have not been encour aged by a conference which they have had recently with a member of the Legislative Council of Fiji, and therefore they are disinclined to continue their contractual obligations after March, 1934.

The Directors say that recently they received a letter from Fiji expressing the view that it might be as well to abandon the enterprise there, “but if the Directors wish to be magnanimous and look to the future it would be to the interests of Fiji undoubtedly if you put a couple of larger planes into service and continued opera tions in the Colony. . . . but I personally think it will be many years before Fiji is air-minded enough to support a decent air service.”

The position is to be considered at an early meeting of shareholders.

It will be a matter for great regret if Fiji Airways, Ltd., and the Fiji Govern ment cannot between them inaugurate an aerial transport service within this Colony.

Such services are certain to come in all of the Island Groups within the next decade or two; and it would be a good thing for Pacific Administrations generally if the rich and influential Fiji Government could pioneer this development.