Raivavae Lagoon Open
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MOF Fishing
UNDER the system of rotation of mother-of-pearl shell diving areas in French Oceania, dif ferent lagoons are declared open for diving in different years, in order not to exhaust the valuable fisheries.
By notice recently gazetted in Papeete, Raivavae lagoon, in the Australs, has been declared open to skin divers for 3 months only, from January 1, 1955.
Largest number of passengers— 187—to leave Fiji on any vessel since before the war departed from Suva per Orcades in January.