Nadi's "Shep" Clocks Up 30 Years

Gordon “Shep" Shepherdson, Bri tish Airways’ airport manager at Nadi, was recently presented with a pin to mark his 30 years’ service to the airline, by Trevor Glover,, general manager charters who was visiting Fiji. Also present was Captain Johnny Johnson, manager aviation British Air ways Associated Companies.

Bearded “Shep", who has 21 wall plaques bearing the arms of every station at which he has served, is one of those hard-working chaps who has done so much for the airline’s re putation over the years.

Australian-born, from Lismore, Victoria, “Shep” has been airport! manager at Nadi for five years and im mediately before that was in Colombo.

He reckons that 90 per cent of his 30 years has been spent overseas and the list of places at which he hasj served sounds like a world gazetteer. !

They are: Lagos, Tel Aviv, Madrid, Khartoum, Kuwait, Baghdad, Bah rein, Dacca (Bangladesh), Salisbury (Rhodesia), Livingstone, Tripoli, Braz-j zaville, Kaduna,. Accra, Bathurst, Free-] town, Durban, Cairo and Goose Bay, Labrador.

Gordon Shepherdson (centre) is seen receiving his 30-year pin from Trevor Glover, general manager charters. Murdo MacDonald, manager South Pacific Islands, is seen on the left.