Matson Liner For Suva

Relief for Overseas Travellers

Suva, Feb. 8.

WOULD-BE travellers from Fiji to Australia have been better served since Qantas Airways began run ning almost regular “survey flights” be tween Sydney and Suva, via Noumea. The first flight was made in November last year.

Now news that the Matson liner “Lur line” will call at Suva on March 8, gives us cause to hope that the accumulated overseas passage worries of the past years will be partly or totally solved.

The local Matson agents, Morris Hedstrom, Ltd., have indicated that the Lurline” will have accommodation for 300 passengers between Suva and Auck land or Sydney. The question of the

return journey is, of course, left un solved, but many Fiji residents will, no doubt, be disposed to worry about that only when the time for return comes.

It is generally expected that 1946 will see the easing of many transport wor ries in the South Pacific.