Sydney - New Guinea
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Air Mail
Four Big Firms Are Tenderers
HPENDERS for the proposed Sydney * New Guinea weekly air-mail service, which closed on March 31, were submitted by Guinea Airways Limited, W. R. Car penter & Co. Ltd., Australia-New Guinea Airlines, and Southern Airlines and Freighters.
The first two tenderers are well known in New Guinea. The third is a company formed by the big Australian aviation concerns with the apparent object of tendering for the New Guinea service.
The last-named is a company formed by Mr. I. H. Grabowsky (formerly general manager for Guinea Airways Ltd.) and certain Melbourne interests to undertake aerial freighting in Australia.
As each tenderer has submitted a num ber of tenders covering services of different speeds and plane capacities, and with different ports of call, a total of 49 separate proposals have been submitted, and must receive the close consideration of the Civil Aviation Board before a recommendation can be placed before the Commonwealth Government.
It was hoped, early in April, that it would be possible to make a recom mendation to the Cabinet meeting on April 20, but so much had to be done in checking up on the tenders that that was considered unlikely. It is not con sidered probable that the service will commence much before the end of the year.
It was officially announced that radio and direction-finding apparatus will be placed at Cooktown, Port Moresby, and Salamaua, on the proposed Sydney-Neyr Guinea route.