the Queen
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Islands prepare for the Queen
Preparations have begun in Fiji and Tonga for the Queen’s visit next March, when she will stop over on the way to New Zealand and finally Australia, for the Captain Cook bicenten nary celebrations.
The Queen, Prince Philip and Princess Anne will arrive in Fiji by air on March 4 and em bark in the yacht Britannia at Lautoka. The next day the royal party is to visit Suva, and then leave that evening in the Britannia for Tonga, arriving there on Saturday, March 7.
The Queen will spend the day in Tonga at the invitation of King Taufa’ahau, and sail that evening for New Zealand. The Queen’s last visit to Fiji was in February, 1963.