At the Mocambo

Private Enterprise

Takes Over From Nz

No More Mutton At the Mocambo

PRIVATE enterprise has worked

wonders with the Mocambo, once a horror-stretch for transient airline passengers at Nadi, Fiji.

About three years ago, stranded there with about 30 other BCPA passengers while an engine-fault was remedied, we were quartered in fusty cubicles furnished with little more than camp beds. Bathropms and toilets were in another building.

The accommodation is still not of the top plush; but under Mr.

Barry Philp’s direction, the cubicles have given way to airy bedrooms, each with a small insect-screened verandah; and with private toilet and shower. Guests are provided with reading lamps so that they do not have to do that barbarous thing required of them in many Islands pubs—turn out the light near the door somewhere and then crawl through the darkness back to bed.

A huge electric fan—with blades as big as Super Constellation pro pellers—is part of the equipment.

With the help of this, guests may now sleep cooler at Nadi than in Summertime Australia.

Meals are excellent. A magnificent buffet of cold meats, salads, fish curries, Chinese food and Islands fruit greets the northbound passenger in place of the roast mutton and fried chops of the former New Zea

land cuisine.-

J.T.

H Mr. G. B. Crabbe, of Suva, Fiji, is at present on a visit to Sydney.

U The Rev. and Mrs. Wil.

Wagner, of St. Louis, USA, pa through Sydney recently en rout a new Lutheran mission statioi Aramunda (west of Mt. Hagen New Guinea, II Dr. L. H. Hatcher, who has 1 serving on contract at Nadi Air; Fiji, has now joined Fiji Me< Department, as Medical Office]