American And British Cars

In Fiji

A REMARKABLE number of new cars, complete with bodies, are arriving in Fiji.

Dealers there report that while they cannot get enough American cars to meet the demand, they cannot sell all the British cars which are coming forward, and they have asked that the numbers be reduced.

Fiji, like Australia and New Zealand, usually wants the medium and big Ameri can cars, with full-width tracks and plenty of power. The British manufac turers, on the other hand, produce light cars with a narrow track and low power, which are suitable for running about towns or thickly settled flat country, but which are under a handicap in long jour neys over fairly rough roads, with steep grades.

Thus an awkward position has been created in Fiji, where most considera tions demand that the Colony shall buy in the British rather than the American market.

When the NZ Air Force Sunderland, en route from Auckland to Suva, was forced by engine trouble to turn back on February 22, the outlook was so bad that something had to be jettisoned.

Three bags (about 100 lbs.) of second class mail, containing newspapers and parcels addressed to NZ Air Force per sonnel in Fiji, were thrown overboard — but all other mail appears to have got through eventually.