Fiji's Perennial Airport
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Commission Will Consider The Relative Merits of Nausori and Nadi
From Our Own Correspondent
Suva. Jan. 19.
A DECISION on the question of Fiji’s international airport (Nadi or Nausori), which showed signs of be ing delayed for all eternity, may be reached in 1948.
A commission consisting of represent atives of the Governments of Great Britain, New Zealand, Australia and Fiji will start investigations in Fiji on Feb ruary 2.
Unofficial members of the Fiji Legis lative Council, town boards and chambers of commerce have been invited to sub mit memoranda.
It may be concluded that the Lautoka- Suva “war,” which broke out between re sidents on opposite sides of Viti Levu when the question was first raised, will be on again!
In making recommendations, the com mission will consider engineering pro blems, annual and recurrent costs, and social and economic problems connected with the establishment of the main air port.
The Rev. W. J. V. Saville, who spent many years as a missionary in Papua, and retired in 1935, died recently in UK.