Fiji: Fiji Airways airmail labels

Here is a complete sheets of 4 airmail labels from Fiji. Issued for 25th Anniversary of first airmail flight between Tonga and Fiji. Labels are not listed on Mair's catalog. What is interesting that label design is the same as the one from Samoa i've posted before.

Year: 24.10.1964, Gummed. Günter Mair's catalogue no: - FIJ-B-1, perforated 11 ¼ , sheets of 4(2x2)
black/blue/light blue/white,

Nice surprize from Fiji...

Today the start of the day was exciting. I received a long waited  mail from Sunny Fiji and another mail from Åland (in next post). All credits goes to Merelita Isimeli from Fiji Post. Big thanks to her. I received 5 different kinds of airmail labels! Just curious are all of those labels currently in circulation. But anyway, for me Fiji labels still remain most attractive airmail labels from the recent labels around the world!
         
                                                                                                            Year: ?, Self-adhesive.

Year: ?, Self-adhesive. Same design like old labels.                                                 Year: ?, Self-adhesive.













Year: ?, Self-adhesive. New design.











Year: ?, Self Adhesive. The design same as the top ones,just a bit bigger and in lighter color.

Fiji: Airmail labels

Here is an attractive airmail label from Fiji. It shows a flying fish, standard writings "PAR AVION/AIR MAIL" and representation wording "From Sunny Fiji".

Year: ?, Gummed.

 Fiji , officially the Republic of the Fiji Islands, is an island nation in Melanesia in the South Pacific Ocean about 2000 km northeast of New Zealand's North Island. Its more immediate neighbours are Vanuatu to the west, France's New Caledonia to the southwest, New Zealand's Kermadec to the southeast, Tonga to the east, the Samoas and France's Wallis and Futuna to the northeast and Tuvalu to the north. Fiji comprises an archipelago of more than 332 islands, of which 110 are permanently inhabited, and more than 500 islets, amounting to a total land area of ca. 18,300 km2. The two major islands, Viti Levu and Vanua Levu, account for 87% of the population of almost 850,000. (Source: Wikipedia)

 Flying fish can be seen jumping out of warm ocean waters worldwide. Their streamlined torpedo shape helps them gather enough underwater speed to break the surface, and their large, wing-like pectoral fins get them airborne.
Flying fish are thought to have evolved this remarkable gliding ability to escape predators, of which they have many. Their pursuers include mackerel, tuna, swordfish, marlin, and other larger fish. For their sustenance, flying fish feed on a variety of foods, including plankton.
There are about 40 known species of flying fish. Beyond their useful pectoral fins, all have unevenly forked tails, with the lower lobe longer than the upper lobe. Many species have enlarged pelvic fins as well and are known as four-winged flying fish.
Flying fish are attracted to light, like a number of sea creatures, and fishermen take advantage of this with substantial results. Canoes, filled with enough water to sustain fish, but not enough to allow them to propel themselves out, are affixed with a luring light at night to capture flying fish by the dozens. There is currently no protection status on these animals. (Source: National Geographic).