More Kite-flying By Newspapers
pp. 18-19 · Read in the full issue
Trans-Pacific Liners
about three years now, in almost A every issue of the “Pacific Islands Monthly” it has been stated that the British Empire Governments concerned had either decided to build two liners for the trans-Pacific trade between Sydney and Vancouver, or else that the project had been shelved.
At first these statements, taken from the current newspapers, were published ser iously. But, about two years ago, we learned that they represent mostly kite flying by various newspapers, and said so.
The kite-flying still goes on. It was re ported by some newspapers early in July, with the greatest confidence, that the liners were about to be built by the Cana dian Pacific line and operated by the Canadian-Australian line. On July 15 the reports were practically contradicted.
Mr. A. E. T. Langford, who before he retired eight years ago was superintendent of the Pacific Cable Board, in which capacity he served at Norfolk Island and Fiji, died in Auckland at the end of j une>
Mr. F. W. P. Roe, of Burns Philp (South Sea) Co., Ltd., late of New Hebrides and the Solomons, who has been relieving at the Co.’s Futuna Island branch, has been appointed manager there.
European “lady” and native Native “lady” and European “woman”, Fiji, 1888. “woman”, Fiji, 1938.
Fashions in clothes change—and so does the racial attitude towards clothes.