Oil Company’s New Vuda Pt. Terminal

Vacuum Oil’s new bulk oil terminal at Vuda Point, Fiji, was officially opened by the Governor of Fiji, Sir Ronald Garvey, on July 23 in the presence of over 400 guests of the company.

Many of the guests arrived by car from Suva, assembled at the installations eight miles across the bay from Nadi Airport at 2.30 p.m., and were conducted around the installations.

The guests then were taken by car to a reception at the airport.

There the Governor declared the Vuda Point terminal officially open, and con gratulated the company on the establish ment of these important aviation fuelling facilities.

First tanker bringing aviation fuel to the new installation is expected at Vuda Point early August. Most of the fuel will

be carried to Nadi airport by a self-propelled tank-barge, but some products will con tinue to be carried by road tanker.

During the war the Americans estab lished a pipe-line from Vuda Point to the airfield. Enroute, where it traversed mangrove swamps, it was much preyed upon by busy black-marketeers and tax [?] drivers equipped with metal drills, who more often than not, after filling their containers did not remain long enough to plug the hole.

Eventually, a constant night patro [?] had to be maintained on this line. Its useful life ended, it was removed some time ago.

Photographs show (top) Sir Ronald Garvey and official party at the reception and (lower) some of the storage tanks at Vuda Point.