Assessing Value of Islands
Central Pacific Air
LATEST information from Honolulu in dicates that Pan Pacific Airways, Ltd., in collaboration with the United States Government, are making steady progress with their plans for the new air-mail ser vice between Hawaii and Auckland, New Zealand.
The coastguard vessel, Ithasca, returned to Honolulu early in March from a visit to Jarvis, Baker and Howland Islands. It is believed that the latter islands are not suitable for the proposed seaplane service and that the latter will run from Hono lulu to Palmyra Island; thence to Pago Pago, American Samoa; thence to Suva; and thence to Auckland.
A glance at the map suggests that the service probably will require an emergency landing-place somewhere between Palmyra and Pago Pago (where there are numerous islands) and between Suva and Auckland (where this is a very empty stretch of sea, broken only by the Kermadec Group.)