Islands

Pacific

Monthly

February 18 1948

Vol. Xviii. No. 7.

Established 1930.

IRegistered at the G.P.O., Sy&$By . SQJ\sL ra nsmlssion by post as a newspaper ]

IN THE NEWS AGAIN Nadi airport, Fiji, which was built by the Americans during the war, is being considered by a committee of experts, who are now in Fiji, as the Colony’s permanent international airport.

Alternative to Nadi (which is in the dry zone of Viti Levu, 70 miles airline from Suva, the capital, and well over 100 by road) is Nausori. Nausori is 16 miles from Suva, by road, but ut is in the wet zone. There has been a great deal of local controversy about the relative merits of the two aerodromes. Nadi is at present used by the trans-Pacific airliners flying between Sydney and the United States. —Photo by Fiji Public Relations Office.