FLIGHT HOSTESS ON “CORAL ROUTE”

Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27874, 24 January 1956, Page 2

FLIGHT HOSTESS ON “CORAL ROUTE”

CHRISTCHURCH GIRL’S APPOINTMENT

Miss B. R. Frost, of Spreydon, has accepted an offer of Tasman Empire Airways to become a flight hostess on the “Coral route” with headquarters in Fiji. Miss Frost was one of the applicants for the position of hostess in the Christchurch crew flying to Melbourne and was offered the other appointment because of her qualifications.

After education at the Christchurch Girls’ High School, she qualified as a nurse at the Christchurch Hospital, worked at the Palmerston North Hospital and has since had three years overseas, nursing in England and Denmark and travelling extensively on the Continent. She is a keen tennis player. Familiarisation flights will begin Miss Frost’s training and after several weeks’ ground instruction at Auckland she will have flight training on the Fiji service. Her duties will take her regularly to Tahiti from Suva with calls at Aitutaki and Samoa and some trips to Tonga. She will live at Suva.

A Japanese horticulturist in Ibaraki Prefecture, just outside Tokyo, has developed three black dahlia blooms through cross-breeding imported Black Monarch dahlia bulbs with red dahlia bulbs. The black dahlia blooms grown by Mr Tsuyoshi Hashimoto, of Shimodate city, may be the first in the world. Mr Hashimoto keeps a flower garden with more than 10,000 dahlia plants of 300 varieties.