To December 31, 1968

Marineland should be provided for and that the municipal markets should be kept near the wharves.

A FREEHOLD island near Suva is being advertised for sale in Australia at a price of $350,000. According to the advertisement, the island has an area of 28 acres, a sheltered position near Suva harbour and is covered with palms.

FIJI’S new Governor, Sir Robert Foster, was sworn in at a simple but colourful ceremony on a specially built dais in the Supreme Court entrance of Government Buildings, Suva, on Saturday.

THE first television pictures from the Apollo 8 spacecraft on its way to the moon were seen on United States television yesterday. The pictures were beamed back to earth from 120,000 miles in outer space.

AMERICA’S three Apollo 8 astronauts, exhausted but happy, headed for home today, resting and sleeping on their first “day off” since being blasted into space last Saturday.

Frank Borman, James Lovell and William Anders were reported extremely tired after their historic 10-orbits of the moon.

FIJI’S Medical Department is campaigning for the installation of seat belts in motor vehicles, according to its weekly health bulletin. Road accidents appear to be increasing steadily in Fiji.

December 6, 1968.

A NAVY aircraft carrying the Apollo 8 astronauts touched down on United States soil at 0030 GMT (12.30pm Fiji Time) – seven days and 11 hours after their rocket roared off from Cape Kennedy for the moon. They received a tumultuous welcome from a crowd of 3000 people at Honolulu Airport.

A US$3 million investment in a Vanua Levu copper mine may be money “poured down the drain” because the mine’s ore reserves are less than one third the size expected. The mine is the Banno Mining Company mine at Udu Point, Vanua Levu.