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Christmas telephone calls made by people in Fiji to rela tives and friends overseas totalled 254 compared with 249 last year. (The figure is for the number of calls made between noon on Christmas Day and noon on Boxing Day).

The total included 127 calls to New Zealand; 82 to Aus tralia; 23 to Britain; 18 to the USA and four to Canada.

But there were 27 cancella tions of telephone bookings which had been made in advance.