FLYING AT FIJI.
TRIAL TRIPS A SUCCESS. ROUND "BIG FIJI" AND VANUA LEVU. The woolly-headed Fijians have just seen their first flying machine, and one can imagine the excitement in the palm groves and the shouts of "Vinaka! Sa viuaka sural" as the excited islanders saw the big strange bird swoop over their villages. Mr. Leo A. Walsh, of the New Zealand Flying School, who was commissioned by the Fijian Government to carry out experiments in the group with a view of establishing aerial mail services, has cabled to representatives in Auckland to say that he and Captain A. C. Upham arrived safeit with the machine. On the 4th they made a flight round Vita Levu, the island on which Suva, the capital is situated, doing 280 miles, and flying for 270 minutes, "the machine going well" Two days later they flew round Vanua Levu, the big island in the north of the group. The machine they are using is a supermarine four-seater Channel-type I flying boat, which was seen out round 'about Auckland before it was sent down Ito the Islands on the last trip of the Tofua.
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Auckland Star, Volume LII, Issue 159, 6 July 1921, Page 7
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