Levuka Is Not
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Letter to the Editor
Decayed
WE strongly object to PI Ml latest derogatory remark abouj Levuka, published in your Feb| ruary issue, in a report in whicfl Levuka is referred to as “a decayel tropical port.”
Official statistics prove that, fai from being anything like a decayej port, Levuka is one of the busies ports in Fiji. Records show thaj this port was visited in 1956 b; more than 100 registered vessel each month; and this figure doa not include the daily launch servid to and from Natovi.
The amount of copra shipped duß ing 1956 was 8,090 tons, which is I sizeable percentage of Fiji’s tots copra production.
Therefore, it is obvious to ard one who examines reliable informa tion that Levuka is, in fact, a busy and important port.
Yours, etc.,
Levuka Citizens'
Association
June 21, 1957.
In spite of the 100 vessels pi month, communications in and oi of Levuka do not seem to he vei jast. The offending item appean five months ago! It occurred in Q article on whaling (projected) an we said that Levuka would henei from another industry. It is prohah quite true that Levuka is no mo* decayed than many such small pori However, Levuka cannot overcov. its history. Long, long ago it wi the capital of Fiji’, in fact it cc he said that it was Fiji. But fro the moment the capital was mov\ to Suva (1882) it was inevitat that Levuka should live in diminisi ing glory. —Ed. PIM. !f Madame Ingeborg de BeausacqJ German-born American woman wl has carried out unusual phot graphic commissions in Sou America and elsewhere for Nt York interests, and who (see Ju PIM ) was on her way from Fi via Sydney, to Dutch New Guine was side-tracked in the Ne Hebrides. She went to the N( Hebrides, to catch the Tulagi j Santo, en route to Honiara ai Bougainville. But she we mountain-climbing in Malekula, ai the Tulagi running early, had leave Santo without her. It w several weeks before she could g out of the New Hebrides—by air but she got to Brisbane mid-Ji and went on immediately to NGJ t Major-General C. E. Weir, Ch of the New Zealand General Sti paid a short visit, to Fiji last mon as a representative of the Chiefs Committee.