Rabaul Air-Mail Plans

for the Sydney-Rabaul air - service, which may begin in March, are being discussed by the Civil Aviation Board (says Sydney Telegraph).

A suggestion that the service leave Sydney on Mondays, arriving Rabaul Wednesday mornings (thus arriving back in Sydney on Friday evenings) is being opposed.

It would give Sydney business houses only Saturday mornings to deal with New Guinea mail, and would just miss the English air-mail.

It is hoped to arrange for the plane to leave Sydney on Tuesday and Rabaul Friday afternoon, arriving back in Sydney Sunday evening. Opposition to this plan is based on overtime charges which would be incurred by l the Customs Department on Saturday afternoons and Sundays.

Another example of the manner in which the needs of the general public are subordinated to the convenience of petty bureaucracy!

Mr. A. S. Boyer, who had lived for 47 years in Tonga, where he was a store keeper and planter, died recently in Auck land at the age of 65.