Motors Increase in the Islands
GOOD ROADS FORMED CARS GLIDE ALONG AMONG THE PALMS The motor-car is no new means of transport in the islands of the Pacific. Petrol-driven vehicles of all varieties scuttle through the cocoanut plantations with dusky drivers at the wheel. Mr. A. G. Millington, a representative of the Shell Oil Company, returned by the Tofua last evening after spending 10 months in the Islands in the interests of his firm. He was formerly attached to the New Zealand Railways and Tourist Departments, but for the last 16 years he has lived in Australia. Mr. Millington says that motorcars are rapidly increasing in numbers on the Islands of the Pacific. There are hundreds of cars inland in Fiji and also in Tonga and Samoa. Good roads make comfortable travelling and the roads generally are being improved. Mr. Millington has been arranging for supply depots for his firm and several have" been opened on the various islands.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 734, 6 August 1929, Page 10
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159Motors Increase in the Islands Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 734, 6 August 1929, Page 10
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