WHBM
Looking at my logbook and aussieairliers.org it is more accurate to say that HIHO/EEI/VMIA was operated by Qantas rather than Air Pacific. All the images that I can see shows it in Air Pacific colours for its whole time, but from memory and records it flew mainly Qantas services and except for the the change to Irish for a short period it was VH registered.
I suspect that once Air Pacific commenced NRT services it was" a bridge too far" for the old girl.During that period Qantas often had at least 2 aircraft in Air Pacific colours even though they never had more than one on the Fiji service. The Fijian pilots for most of the time held Australian licenses and the FEs were Australian from Qantas and later a hire company.
Wunwing