to Nukualofa
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TEAL Begins Service to Nukualofa
TASMAN Empire Airways in augural flight of the regular service between Suva and Nukualofa was made on August 12.
The General Manager of TEAL, Mr. G. N. Roberts, was a passenger on the Solent and representatives from Fiji, who also made the flight were Sir Alport Barker and Messrs.
W. G. Johnson and L. G. Usher.
The deputy premier of Tonga, Havea Tuikaateiho, entertained the party at a feast of welcome in his home.
The frequency of the service from Suva has * been arranged to fill in the blank between calls of MV Tofua. Flying boats will therefore run at alternate intervals of a fort night and six weeks. The aircraft
will stay three hours at Nukualofa and return to Suva the same day.
Pacific Islands artist Charles Mc- Phee has been commissioned by Messrs. A. B. Donald, Ltd., of Auckland, to supply a couple of paintings, suitable for high-class calendars and similar work. He and his wife, who have been living in New Zealand for some time, hope to return soon to Tahiti.
U Dr. Harry Cloud, an American dentist who has spent a consider able time in the Marshall Islands, and was for a time in Fiji, recently resigned from his position with the Public Health Department, Truk, Carolines.
The Cunard liner Caronia will call at Suva in the course of a world cruise in February.