No Bsip Representatives
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To See The Queen
FIJI and Tonga were actually visited by the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh. And rep resentatives from Samoa, Cook Islands, Niue, Pitcairn Island, Papua-New Guinea, Nauru and Norfolk Island went specially to New Zealand, Australia or Fiji to pay their respects to the Royal couple.
Only the British Solomons Islands Protectorate and others of the Western Pacific High Commission islands missed out. The omission caused some heart-burnings in the BSIP. If a plane had been chart ered to take some official repre sentatives to Fiji or Australia, they say, there would have been no dif ficulty in filling the other seats with unofficial visitors. Special planes are being run from New Guinea for the Royal Visit to Cairns. Why could not the BSIP join in?
Delegations were sent to the Coronation from WPHC territories.
Their omission from Royal Visit festivities in the South Pacific is re garded by some people as “odd.”
II Mr. G. W, Johns, Manager of the Grand Pacific Hotel, in Suva, is at present on vacation in New Zea land. In his absence, Mr. Hurley, former purser in RMS Aorangi, is manager of the GPH.