QEA Survey Flights

in Fiji

THE Qantas Empire Airways Catalina, which is to make survey flights in Fiji preparatory to the Company operating internal air services for a six months experimental period, arrived at Suva on July 24, and began the survey two days later.

The places included in the itinerary are Levuka, Kadavu, Nadi, Lautoka, Savu savu, Labasa, Dreketi, Buca Bay, Tave uni, Lomaloma and Lakeba. Later it visited Tonga, Cook Is. and Tahiti.

Captain W. H. Crowther directed the survey, and Captain H. Birch commanded the aircraft.

Mr. Charles McPhee, of Western Samoa, who is steadily acquiring fame as a Paci fic Islands painter, reports that Miss Johnny Frisbie, of Rarotonga, daughter of the late Robert Dean Frisbie, has now gone to reside in Honolulu. The Ameri can author, Mr. James Norman Hall, is helping Miss Frisbie in her ambition to follow her father’s footsteps and develop as an author. Mr. McPhee. by the way, has succeeded lately in selling a num ber of his Samoan paintings at satis factory prices. The New Zealand High Commissioner in Samoa (Mr. G. R.

Powles) has taken a keen interest in Mr. McPhee’s work.