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Airport Commission's Deliberations In Fiji
Prom Our Own Correspondent SUVA. March 31.
TIHE Commission appointed to investi gate and make recommendations on a site for an international airport has completed its deliberations and some of its members have already left the Colony.
The Commission’s report, which is now being completed, will be submitted to the four Governments concerned —Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom and Fiji, and no announcement can be made until these Governments have accepted the re port and agree that a decision can be made known.
As the Commission was required to con sider Nadi or Nausori, or any other pos sible solution which would result in over all economy, it was necessary to investi gate thirteen possibilities in Fiji and one in Tonga. Housing, staff requirements, social, economic and administrative as pects were all considered, and opera tional, engineering and meteorological in formation was checked.
After many delays, the NZNAC flying boat “Mataatua,” which was damaged in a mishap at Labasa, Fiji, in February, went back on the Auckland-Suva run on March 31.