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For Yachts
Fiji was visited by 688 yachts men from 142 yachts in the 3\ years from the start of 1963 to mid-1966, according to official figures. Two of the 688 had to he repatriated to their homelands at a cost of £4OO to the Govern ment.
The arrivals for each year were: 1963, 22 yachts and 83 crew; 1964, 29 yachts, 127 crew; 1965 , 43 yachts, 213 crew; 1966, (first half), 48 yachts, 265 crew. (This year’s figures include 23 yachts in the Auckland-Suva yacht race in May.) Government policy for some time has been that crew mem bers, on their arrival in the Colony, must have return air tickets.
At a recent sitting of the Legis lative Council, Mr. C. D. Aidney asked if the record of repatriation at the Government’s expense justified this policy.
The Acting Colonial Secretary, Mr. J. S. Thomson, replied that it did.