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...early this year led "freedom riders" through New South Wales to protest discrimination against Australia's dark-skinned aborigines, who number nearly 80,000. Perkins saw in Nancy Prasad an even more dramatic way to argue his case. In 1962 the child had come to Australia from Fiji with her father on visitors' visas. The father returned to Fiji when his visa expired, but Nancy was allowed to remain for medical treatment. The courts turned down an appeal that the child be allowed to stay on permanently after she recovered, and she was ordered deported last week...
...government insists there is no discriminatory racial policy in immigration, European immigrants are welcomed at a rate of 150,000 a year, while Asians are limited to a few hundred annually. At week's end, the police tracked down little Nancy, put her aboard the next plane to Fiji...
...Wide Yawn. With all its natural attractions, New Zealand hopes to attract more foreign tourists. Only 113,000 visited New Zealand last year (15,000 of them Americans), and most of them have to fly prop planes from Australia or Fiji to get there. So far, there has been little reason to come: most New Zealand hotels are dilapidated, service is poor, almost all bars close at 6 p.m. daily, there is practically no night life and a New Zealand Sunday is one wide yawn. The government is determined to improve matters, hopes that it can raise tourist income from...
...reason is the popularity of scuba diving; hunting and collecting fish as Chiropractor Roberts does with his slurp gun is much more rewarding than spearing them. Another major factor has been the jet age, which has brought the coral reefs of Fiji and other faraway sources of exotic fish within a few hours of the U.S. This shorter travel time, plus new sleep drugs which make fish inert, thus reducing their oxygen intake by two-thirds, means that more fish can be transported in less water-and hence sold more cheaply...
Britain's blizzards were oceans behind as Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip toured their sunnier Commonwealth lands Down Under on a 40-day, 30,000-mile trip. It was the first time in nearly a decade that far-off Fiji had glimpsed its Queen. Elizabeth, looking cool as ever in the 105° simmer, responded by quaffing a bowl of kava, the muddy national beverage made of mashed roots. Then, before boarding the royal yacht Britannia for the cruise on to New Zealand and Australia, she bowed to accept the traditional bouquet from one of her barefoot subjects, while...