Kiribati was a stopping point for Antipodeans on the way to bigger things. They were a great crowd. A few incidents spring to mind...the trislander ferry back from Fiji where they were planning to ditch as the half way beacon hadn't been turned on...local pilot climbed in back to get his passport.(clouds cleared in the nick of time)
Aussie guy going back to hangar with inadequate power having failed to notice the third engine hadn't been turned on.
The usual trick where the pilot sat with the passengers and said that if the pilot didn't show up soon he would fly the plane himself.
...and those Renault 4 doors