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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 December 1959Vol. XXX, No. 5

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p. 119 · Read in the full issue

Sir — Occasionally!

Airline loadings are based on an average weight of a pas- Early in November TEAL was guest to the excep tion that proves the rule—Mr Fitismanu Fa’alata Malietoa, of Western Samoa, weight 36 stone.

Mr. Fitismanu, a building foreman attached to the Mormon Church, now holds the distinction of being the heaviest passenger ever carried by TEAL ~a distinction he is likely to hold for some time. He’ll probably be returning home— per TEAL—in three month’s time.