New Radio-Telephone Links
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RADIO-TELEPHONE links between Pago Pago and Apia, and between Nukualofa and Suva were officially opened on September 6.
The Pago Pago-Apia link was opened with a call from American Samoa’s Acting Governor, Mr. Owen Aspinall, to Western Samoa’s Head of State, Malietoa Tanumafili 11. i-p, I*l, i« * XT 1 1 r .
The link between Nukualofa and Suva was opened with a call from Tonga’s Queen Salote to her son,
Prince Tuipelehake, who was visiting Suva, This was the third radio-telephone link between Fiji and neighbouring islands to be opened in recent months. The others were between Fiji and Western Samoa, and Fiji and the New Hebrides.
Services inaugurated in the past 12 months include those between Raro tonSa (Cook Islands) and New Zea land; Pago Pago and Washington; and Honiara, BSIP, and Vila and Santo, New Hebrides.