Flying Angel is
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in trouble
The Flying Angel Club for sea men in Fiji, which maintains particularly good premises at Suva where seamen me entertained and generally looked after, is in “dire straits” for money, says the port chaplain, the Rev. Roy Chalkley.
“The latest balance sheet shows a critical financial situation; we have no reserves on which to draw and exist on a hand to mouth basis,’’ he says. Last year, 25,000 seamen visited the Flying Angel Club in Suva. About 60 per cent, of those were local seamen or from other Pacific islands.
By providing seamen with some where to go and something to do, the Flying Angel keeps them out of mischief, an easy thing to fall into in a seaport, but that’s the least important aspect of the club’s work.