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PA AUCKLAND, Dec. 26. To have the first seven hours snipped off their Christmas Day after an abbreviated Christmas Eve was the experience of passengers on British Commonwealth Pacific Airlines DC6, which arrived at Whenuapai shortly after 5 p.m. on Sunday. Christmas dinner, however, was served on board with the traditional turkey and Eudding while the aircraft was flying igh between Fiji and Auckland. The interior of the machine was decorated for the occasion. When midnight was passed on the flight from Honolulu to Fiji, the passengers entered Christmas Eve by world time standards, but they slept through most of it, for shortly after 7 a.m. the aircraft crossed the international date line and' it was Christmas Day.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 27273, 27 December 1949, Page 4
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