Fiji Civil Servants and the Matson Line
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Matson Line
Letter to the Editor.
Our freedom was won and our Empire was made, By our men and our ships and our overseas trade. *TVHE above lines appearing at the head of A the leading article in your issue of October 24, are very timely.
It might interest your readers to know that when the Civil Servants of Fiji go on holiday leave they are allowed travelling grants by the Government. As the money for these grants is provided by the tax payers who are British subjects, one would naturally think that the Government would insist on their officers travelling by British steamers.
It is surprising, therefore, to find that such is not the case, as a great many, if not the majority, travel by the heavily subsidised American Matson Line of steamers.
I am. etc.,
. Colonial.
Suva, Fiji, 4/11/’35.
Rev. J. Faubula, L.Th. (Tonga), Tollo Laupue (Samoa), Inoki Thakantini (Fiji), and Jom Ledua (Fiji), who have been domg deputation work in Australia for the Methodist Missionary Society during the past eight months, departed for Suva en route to their homes by the Monterey from Sydney on December 14. Three other native deputationists will arrive in Australia from the South Seas early in the New Year.