Note Nadi Is 130 Miles

From Suva !

HARASSED Suva residents have asked this newspaner to tell the world that Suva is not Fiji and that, em phatically, it is not Nadi.

When people in Australia and elsewhere say farewell to friends travelling trans pacific by air, they often dash to the radio office, and ask someone they know in Suva to “contact old Bill Smith at Nadi on his wav through and buy him a drink.”

Suva men are the souls of hospitality.

But trans-Pacific planes remain only a short time at Nadi; and Nadi, isolated in the middle of a featureless plain in north western Viti Levu, is 130 miles from Suva —a day’s hard travelling.

One popular Suva merchant received in one week, five cables asking him to say “Cheero” to air travellers at Nadi.

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