BY AIR TO FIJI
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AUCKLAND, June 9. ; The first weekly return air service, between New Zealand and Fiji was suc coFsfully completed on Saturday when a Royal New Zealand Air Foree Sundefland Jlying boat arrived back in Auckland from Lauthala Bay, Fiji. It.. esrried service personnel and pas'sengers but on future flights increasing numbers of civilians are expeeted to use the service. The Sunderland left Auckland on Thursday and the return flight was aceomplished witlrout incident. The eraft was the Tokomaru, the Jirst of four Air Force Sunderlands to be converted for peacetime use. Ih hddition to a crew of eight i't ean earry 24 passengers comfortably accomiirOdated. '
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Chronicle (Levin), 10 June 1946, Page 8
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