Airways Fuel

New Installation in Fiji

i 1,700,000-gallons bulk terminal 4k. for jet fuel and aviation gaso lines is being completed at □da Point, Fiji, by the Vacuum 111 Co. Pty. Ltd., although the omet jet air service between vdney and Honolulu will not now Eminence this year. Sir Ronald Earvey (Governor of Fiji) will flcially open the new installation ji July 23. [ln Melbourne recently Mr. J.

Jacobs (Chairman and Man ning Director of Vacuum) said the •W terminal would serve the :odern hydrant refuelling system iequal to the best in the world •which the Co. had installed at udi international airport. The itial shipment of jet fuel had ien refined at the Co.’s refinery at itona, near Melbourne; and was ie first bulk jet fuel produced in iistralia for export.

Until jet aircraft enter the -cific service, the Vuda Point rminal and the Nadi airport’s drant system will provide fast, icient refuelling with the grades aviation gasoline required by airliners calling jularly at Fiji.

Remarkable Luck In

Moorings

For use at thp vnda Point tprminal the Vacuum Oil ,Co vvncured’in the New Hebrides’a set of 11 tons mooring anchors, with cables. But, while being transported from New Hebrides to Fiji, the moorings were lost in a ship wreck* Vacuum was faced with the task of quickly replacing them. Using United States Navy charts as a guide for dragging operations, a set of moorings actually was located in the sea off Vuda Point. w ... .. . , With the approval of Fiji Goveminent, and using improvised salvage equipment, Vacuum en-

gineers recovered sufficient anchors and cables to replace those lost.

The moorings are now located at the seaward end of the 1.580-feet tnSslr? ne^^i?phtline, *2}f 0 . ugll which + th b- ir tanks at Vuda romu '