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Back to Seattle's water front last week came the story of another Pacific island paradise* known to a few fortunate U.S. fighting men. This heavenly spot is Aitutaki, one of the Cook Islands, northeast of New Zealand and about 700 miles from Tahiti. It is four miles long by one and a half miles wide and has all standard equipment, including a magnificent lagoon, snow white sand, sapphire blue water, emerald green foliage, lush fruit trees, beautiful and amiable women...
...teller of the tale of Aitutaki was Archie Campbell, onetime hard-boiled Seattle Post Intelligencer newsman, now second engineer in a Liberty ship. A world-traveled cynic, Campbell had always scoffed at South Sea legends. But now he testifies: New Zealand owns the island, but has governed it by leaving it alone. The normal population includes 2,000 Polynesians-strong, handsome men & women. Aitutaki has no commercial value and in peacetime is almost never seen by white men; now it has a holding force of blissfully happy U.S. troops. Venereal disease is unknown among the natives; the major commanding...
...worked two years in the New York office of a paper manufacturer. Then came news of the Yukon gold strike, and Oakes rushed off to prospect. He found no gold there. In the next 13 years of a persevering search he found none in Alaska, the Philippines, Australia, New Zealand, West Africa, the Belgian Congo, South Africa, Mexico, California or Nevada...
...makes his Saturday nite runs into Boston. . . DAVE HORWITZ was in the First Marine Division on Guadalcanal in late '42 and spent some time on a seaplane tender in the South Pacific. . . CLIFF HARRIS was a corpsman on a troop transport that made a tour of Casablanca, Australia, New Zealand, India and the Panama Canal. . . HAROLD BANKSTON did some time in the North Atlantic and in the North Pacific and he wasn't chasing whales. . . so please, Honey, when you visit me here please don't expound too much on my cruising the Chicago River in my outboard motor boat...
...Matson steamship lines want to fly. Matson Navigation Co. applied to CAB last week for permission to fly passengers and freight over its ship routes (Hawaii, South Seas, Australia and New Zealand). Matson also announced that it has spent $100,000 for 43 acres adjacent to the San Francisco airport...