'Tofua' As Floating
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NZ Trade Fair
New Zealand manufac turers will use the Union
Steam Ship Company’s
2,800 ton Tofua as a float ing South Seas trade fair in
July and August.
THIS will be the first time a NZ ship has been used as a trade mission. The mission is being organ ised by the NZ Manufacturers Fed eration in conjunction with the NZ Government. Representatives of NZ manufacturers will take part in the mission to boost NZ goods.
Tofua will call at Fiji, Tonga, American and Western Samoa and Niue. She will carry general passen gers but she will be specially fitted out for displays. First call will be at Suva where in the first week in July TEAL will fly mission members, who will arrange an exhibition at the Town Hall before the Tofua arrives.
Mission members will also be flown to New Caledonia, by TAI, and will visit Tahiti and the New Hebrides.
See TIM for April, p. 130, for other details.