Pacific Islands Monthly
The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930
Pacific Islands Monthly, 14 January 1941Vol. XI, No. 6

Air Connections For Fiji

p. 8 · Read in the full issue

Page 88

Fiji and Samoa Development Probable Soon

IT MAY be expected, as an early development in trans-Pacific trans portation, that Fiji, and probably Western Samoa, will be linked with the San Francisco-Honolulu-Auckland service of Pan American Airways.

Fiji undertook the construction of a seaplane base, near Suva, some months ago, and this is practically ready for use.

Seaplane base facilities have been provided, also, in Western Samoa. It is not likely, at present, that the PAA clippers will call at Apia; but it is probable that there will be a connecting link, by seaplane, between Apia and Suva.

The matter has received official con sideration; but it is mixed up with a variety of other matters, involving shipping services, Anglo-American re lations in the Pacific, and defence con siderations.

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