The Queen To
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Visit Fiji
From a Suva Correspondent The Queen and the Duke oj Edinburgh will visit Fiji on February 1 and 2, on their way to New Zealand and Australia.
The announcement was greeted
enthusiastically throughout the
Colony, although there was
general regret that their stay was to be so short.
THEY will arrive at Nadi by air in the early evening of February 1, and will drive to Lautoka to join the Royal yacht Britannia. They will sail that evening for Suva and will arrive there the next morning.
Unofficially the length of the stay at Suva has been described as “some hours ashore”.
Mayor of Lautoka, Cr. R. B.
Ingleton, said that the people of the north-western areas were grateful for the chance to welcome the Queen as many of them had no apportunity of seeing her when she and the Duke last visited Fiji at the end of 1953.
He made a plea to the tour planning officials to give the Royal couple a little longer at Lautoka, if possible.