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It is reliably reported that the LEITH, a naval 
sloop, left Suva, Fiji, on the twenty-fifth of January 
in accordance with sealed orders from the British 
Admiralty. A wireless operator of the Government of 
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Fiji is on board and has provisions for six months. 
According to rumor the ship will visit Christmas Island 
and the Phoenix islands and the trip has some bearing 
on a contemplated route for the U K C airways. I am 
informed that Commissioner Barley, whose headquarters 
are at Ocean Island and who cooperated to a considerable 
extent with the survey expedition previously reported 
on June 11, 1936, is now away on a mission whose purpose 
is undisclosed. 
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(The survey expedition referred to above was the 
reported visit of two lew Zealand vessels to Jarvis, 
Howland, Baker, Christmas and Fanning Islands with a 
view to making a survey of those islands by airplane.) 
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