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iAL will fly a special east id Coral Route service Nadi through Eastern oa to Tahiti on July 24 ’ing members of the New 2nd Trade Mission. lON members will join this -rvice at Pago Pago Inter -1 Airport in American Samoa, ag their visit to Western on the morning of July 24 rive in Tahiti early afternoon le day. service has been added AL’s normal schedules to the requirements of the ’s itinerary.

L has also arranged to make es at both Suva and Papeete le as temporary “field alters” of the mission, airline’s general manager, A. Reeves, said TEAL wel the opportunity to. support de mission, and at all points the South Pacific where was represented by staff rs or by agents, assistance fing given in arrangements 0 the mission’s arrival, and during the mission’s visit.

New Zealand’s international we are naturally very pleased e can place our long ex -1 in the South Pacific at the i of this trade mission and the nresent drive for greater sales,” he said.

L began its New Zealand/Fiji

services in June, 1950, and during the next two years extended its routes to include regular services to the Samoas, the Cook Islands, and French Polynesia. Throughout most of the 1950’s TEAL’s Solent flying boats were the only regular air con nections to these otherwise isolated island groups. Flying-boat services were withdrawn late in 1960, and since then TEAL services through the South Pacific have been made by regular Electra flights.

Late 1961, the NZ Government appointed three TEAL men as trade correspondents in the Pacific area.

They were Mr. J. B. Wisdom, Pacific Islands manager, stationed in Suva; Mr. K. W. Gibson, TEAL repre sentative at Nadi Airport and Mr.

R. McLaughlin, TEAL representative at Papeete.

Messrs. Wisdom, Gibson and McLaughlin undertake trade enquiries on the Government’s behalf, provide centres for the issue of trade publicity, act as enquiry points for general information about trade with New Zealand, report on general market prospects and par ticular trade opportunities.

The "Tofua" anchors off Alofi, on Niue Island, to take off passengers and cargo on its regular Islands round.