Wau to Pt. Moresby.

New Air Service.

From Our Own Correspondent.

Pt. Moresby, May 1.

ANEW mail service between New Guinea and Papua commenced in March.

Guinea Airways Ltd. are putting on a New Junkers F13 six-passenger mono plane, with a special de luxe cabin for a regular passenger service every three weeks between Wau, New Guinea, and Port Moresby, Papua to connect with the “Macdhui” and “Montoro” on their way up and down from Sydney to Rabaul. The charge per passenger is £15 each way.

The service should be very conveni ent to passengers’ travelling between the goldfields and Australia, who by this service will save a considerable amount of time. The carrying of mails overland by this service will also save the inconvenience which is now ex perienced on the goldfields, in not be ing able to reply to letters by the same mail.

Pilot O. Denny is flying the machine on this new service.

The place of quinine in the treatment of malaria attacks is, however, unas sailable, and no reader of this article should misunderstand its importance as a curative agent. But, for preventive purposes, quinine should be discarded in favour of Plasmoquine.

If Plasmoquine does all that is claimed for it, an attack of malaria may well be regarded in the future as the result of carelessness, or, in the case of a child, wilful negligence, and treated accordingly. It seems advis able to give the drug a thorough trial; but, unfortunately, too many white people regard “fever” as unavoidable, and will not take the trouble to pre vent its occurrence.

Its general introduction may lead to vastly improved conditions for Euro peans in such malarious districts as the New Hebrides, Solomons and parts of New Guinea.

Installation of Bro. H. Schafer as Worshipful Master of the Port Moresby Lodge, in December last.