New Aerodrome In Fiji
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Prom Our Own Correspondent
Suva, Nov. 1.
GANGS of men, working by day and night, have levelled off a sand hilly area near Lautoka and converted it into a large aerodrome. The work will be completed about the middle of November. Couch grass has been plant ed all over the surface, and special means are being taken to encourage its growth, so that it will bind the sand into a suit able surface.
At present, there are no commercial aeroplanes in Fiji.
It is expected that Fiji will be in cluded, as a call, in the new trans-Paci fic airmail service, being established between Auckland and San Francisco, and that either the port of Lautoka or the port of Suva will be used by the seaplanes, according to whether the pre vailing weather is south-east or south west.
Rev. Father A. Bryson, of the Sacred Heart Mission, Samarai, Eastern Papua, was in Victoria in November spending furlough.
Captain N. E. Goodwin arrived in New Guinea from Australia recently to join the staff of W. R. Carpenter and Co.
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