Stranded In Suva
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Absence of Southwards Transport
THERE is an extraordinary shortage of passenger accommodation on liners running between Fiji and Australia and New Zealand and it was reported in Auckland at the end of November that visitors held up in Suva had taken un usual steps in order to secure transport.
One man stowed himself away aboard the “Mariposa”, and when the vessel was at sea presented himself to the purser and tendered his fare. He was accommo dated in the ship’s hospital.
Other men have secured precarious passages on cne or two yachts which nave called at Suva on their way to Auckland.
But the position at the end of Novem-
Iber was that there were at least 50 people in Suva clamouring for passages to Australia and New Zealand, and everything seemed to be booked out for some weeks ahead.
Mr. Len Freeman, of Sydney, has been elected to fill the vacancy on the Coun cil of the Pacific Islands Club, owing to the resignation of Major H. S. Robinson, of the Melanesian Mission, due to pres sure of other duties. Mr. Freeman is a New Zealander.
Mr. L. H. Allman, representative of R.C.A. Photophone (A/sia.), Ltd., left Sydney by the November “Niagara” for Suva. Fiji, where he will install new motion picture equipment at the “Lilac” theatre. He will also inspect the sound equipment of several other theatres on Viti Levu.