Rabaul Airways.

New Service for New Guinea.

NEW GUINEA is shortly to have another aerial service. This one will operate from Rabaul.

Mr. W. J. Duncan, a former Squadron-Leader in the Royal Aus tralian Air Force, who recently returned from New Guinea, has purchased a three-seater Genairco seaplane, and he left Sydney on August 12 to fly in his machine to Rabaul.

The seaplane, which was built at Mascot, is fitted with a Hermes Mark 1 engine and the floats were built and fitted by Wing-Commander Wackett at Cockatoo Dockyard, New South Wales.

En route to Rabaul, Mr. Duncan pro posed to call at Brisbane, Thursday Island, Daru, Port Moresby, Salamaua and Talesea.

Supplies of motor spirit and oil were forwarded to those ports by the Vacuum Oil Company.