Suva
pp. 11-12 · Read in the full issue
PAA Will Call at Suva
rE large Clipper planes of Pan American Airways will shortly make Suva a regular call on the trans pacific air service.
Announcing this in the Legislative Council on June 7, the Governor (Sir Harry Luke) said Britain and NZ have agreed to share with Fiji the cost of establishing a seadrome with all appro priate facilities at Laucala Bay, near Suva. At present it is not intended to embark on any comprehensive work in connection with the new base, PAA being prepared to call at Suva as soon as tem porary mooring and fuelling facilities are provided. These will be completed in the near future.
PAA’s route now will be San Francisco, Honolulu, Canton Island, Suva, Noumea, and Auckland (NZ).
All facilities at Suva will be available also for a British trans-Pacific air ser vice as soon as it is ready to start.
The inclusion of Suva in the across the-Pacific route has been persistently advocated by the “PIM” ever since the PAA service was first mooted, in 1935.
Mr. “Paddy” Morrissey, formerly of Lae, New Guinea, is now serving with an AIF postal unit in Egypt.