N.G. Aviation

PREPARATIONS are being made by Messrs. W. R. Carpenter and Co. Ltd for the inauguration of the new weekly air-mail service, between Sydney and New Guinea, at the end of the year.

Three De Havilland 868 machines will be used.

It is announced that radio direction giving apparatus will be installed, for this service, at Port Moresby and Sala maua, as well as at Rabaul and Cook town.

Tenders for the Government aerial transport work in New Guinea (mail carrying, etc.) closed on June 30, and the principal contract (Morobe goldfield, and Salamaua—Port Moresby) went again for one year to Mandated Airlines (Carpen ter and Co.). The contract for the Madang section (Salamaua to Madang, with services to the Ramu and Chimbu districts) was secured by the Stevens Company.