P.A.A.'S Trans-Pacific Service

Completes First Year

INURING the first passenger year of Pan-American Airways service across the North Pacific (which was inaugur ated in October, 1936), the Clippers have flown 1,500,000 miles in regular service across the Pacific, have carried some 2,000 passengers a total of 7,401,305 pas senger miles, and moved 479,944 pounds of cargo in addition to air-mail without a single fatality or serious mishap. There were 286 woman and 37 children included in the first year’s passenger lists.

Since the extension of the original trans-Pacific air route to the Orient, from

Manila to Hong Kong, there has devel oped a new travel route from the west coast of the United States to Europe.

Persons bound for European centres, who would formerly have had no alternative to transcontinental plane or train to Atlantic coast ports, there to board boats for Europe, are now travelling all-air from U.S.A. to Europe by way of the trans-Pacific and trans-Asian services.

Dr. Mavis Boyt, of the Methodist Mis sion’s Hospital .at Ba, Fiji, will retire early in 1938. She will be succeeded by Dr. Dorothy Delbridge, wife of Rev.

Harlan Delbridge, 8.A., of Westbury, Tasmania, who will arrive in the Colony about the middle of the year.