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Pacific Islands Monthly, 19 July 1948Vol. XVIII, No. 12

Band Out For "Aorangi"

p. 38 · Read in the full issue

From Our Own Correspondent SUVA. June 25. rE band will be out to welcome the “Aorangi” when she returns to the trans-Pacific run in August. Per mission has been granted, at the request of the Fiji Publicity Board, for the band of the Fiji Military Forces to play the liner in to Suva when she arrives.

An official statement says that “this will be both a tribute to the ship’s fine war service and a welcome to the ‘Aorangi’ on her return to her old run.”