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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 June 1959Vol. XXIX, No. 11

First To Land On New Jet Strip

p. 143 · Read in the full issue

When the first portion of the new Nadi jet airstrip came into peration on May 31 Mr. D. E. Morgan, manager of Qantas ai adi (in shorts) met those aboard the first aircraft to toucn Jwn —a Fiji Airways Heron, piloted by Captain Peter Frame nth cap). Others, from left: Mr. C. Ritchie, manager of Fi|i irways and his two boys; Reg Spowart of 'Fiji Times , Mr ck Hackett, Fiji Government's Public Relations Officer plus e "PIM " representative Jim Shortall behind the Above idi's new control tower —inside and out. It has a double glas ell to keep temperatures constant and engine noise down