Exchange Gifts
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Mayors of Auckland And Suva Exchange Gifts Inauguration of New TEAL Service
From Our Own Correspondent SUVA, June 12.
THE Mayor of Auckland (Mr. J. A. C.
Allum) sent a Maori carved box to the Mayor of Suva (Mr. Alport Barker) to commemorate the first flight in TEAL’S Auckland-Suva flying-boat service on June 6. In the absence of Mr. Barker in Canada, the commander of the Solent, Awatere (Captain J. R. McGrane), handed the box to the Deputy Mayor (Mr. D. M.
N. McFarlane) at a Suva Town Hall ceremony.
Mr. McFarlane gave Captain McGrane a Suva-made shell lamp resting on a coconut bowl with a yaka wood base to present to the Mayor of Auckland from the Mayor, Town Councillors and people of Suva.
The ceremony was attended by the general manager of TEAL (Mr. G. N.
Roberts) and six visiting New Zealand pressmen as well as by councillors and officials.