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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 April 1967Vol. 38, No. 4

3,756 Visitors To

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Tonga In Week

Three cruise ships carrying a total >f 3,756 passengers called at Nuku ilofa in February.

It was the greatest number of visitors ever to arrive in Tonga in i single week —or month for that natter.

The P and O-Orient liner "Can jerra", with 1,704 tourists, also ireated a record for the largest lumber of visitors carried in one hip.

The other two liners were the 'Queen Frederica" (812 passengers) md the P and O-Orient's "Oronsay" 1,240 passengers).

The passengers from the three hips were estimated to have spent :T121,000 in the kingdom.