Nutshell
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In A ff Nutshell
• Fiji fought hard and gamely against Wales at Buckhurst Park on June 26—but the home team wasn’t consistent or fit enough to prevent the hefty Welshmen from winning comfortably, 31 points to 11. Wales scored six tries, five conversions and a dropped goal; Fiji had two tries, a conversion and a penalty goal.
At half-time the score was 8-8.
Early in the second half, Fiji’s vice captain and half-back Semesa Sikivou scored a try, giving Fiji an 11-8 lead —but from then on, the show be longed to Wales. • Nauru’s new 5,700-ton pas senger-freighter Eigamoiya was due to make her second appearance at the republic on July 21 with a load of general cargo from Australia. En route from Melbourne, she was to call at Port Kembla, Mackay and Cairns, on Australia’s east coast, before leaving Cairns on July 16. The ship was delivered to Nauru on June 8, and then made her first visit to Australia. • New Caledonian aviator Henri Martinet was scheduled to leave Noumea on June 24 for Indonesia to repair his plane which crashed in the Celebes in March.
Mr. Martinet was to be joined by a carpenter-mechanic from Paris and hoped to have his single-engined Caudron Aiglon repaired within a few weeks.
He was then looking forward to resuming his interrupted Paris- Noumea flight by way of New Guinea, the Solomons and New Hebrides.
He expected to reach Noumea in 10 days, arriving at the beginning of August.
To avoid the monsoons in India, the 62-year-old Caledonian then planned to leave for Paris with his wife at the end of September, thus commemorating his first historic Noumea-Paris flight in a single-engine plane 30 years ago. • A local construction company, Pago Builders and Engineers Inc., sued top American Government
men, including the governor, for 5U5155,000 damages because of alleged actions by the Bank of American Samoa, its executive com mittee and the Public Works Depart ment. • After 20 years of fortnightly air services, CP Air (Canadian Pacific Airlines’ new title) suspended trans-Pacific flights into New Zealand in late April when the NZ Govern ment stopped the carrier’s rights to land in Auckland. CP Air lost its rights because the NZ carrier, Air- NZ, is not interested in reciprocal flights into Canada. There’s little chance of the CP Air flights resum ing. NZ landing rights have not affected CP Air’s weekly services into Sydney out of Vancouver, via Hono lulu and Fiji. 0 In a joint effort to start sheep stud rearing, New Hebrides airline executive and businessman, Mr. Bob Paul, and Fiji businessman, Mr. Pat Macassey, have had seven pedigree New Zealand sheep landed at Tanna, a southern New Hebrides island.
Sheep rearing isn’t big business in the Hebrides—about 600 sheep in various flocks are owned by missions and private owners. • A British co-operative society on Malo, a small island south of Santo, New Hebrides, is to send a consignment of 10,000 husked coco nuts to Australia. It will be the first such export of a British Hebrides co-op.