Airways’ Manager Visits Tahiti.

Papeete, July 14.

A RECENT visitor to Tahiti is Mr. A.

S. Cross, general manager of New Guinea Airways, Ltd., that efficient organisation which has maintained com munication between the coast of New Guinea and the goldfields in the other wise inaccessible interior since the de velopment of the gold industry was commenced. Mr. Cross is on a holiday visit and is at present staying at the Faatoai Hotel, Moorea.

He plans to leave here by the S.S.

“Monowai” on July 16 for Wellington and Auckland, en route to Fiji, where he considers that there may be interest ing possibilities for the development of transportation by means of airplanes.

Mr. Cross arrived in Sydney from Suva on August 18, and went on to Melbourne.