Pacific Islands Monthly
The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930
Pacific Islands Monthly, 21 December 1937Vol. VIII, No. 5

Another Amphibian For Oil

p. 68 · Read in the full issue

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Co. In Papua

THE first of its type to be imported, a Grumman G2l twin-engine amphi bian will reach Sydney shortly from America for Papuan Oil Development Co.

Ltd. (Shell Co.). It will be assembled at Mascot before being flown to Western Papua, where the big oil-seeking concern already has a Sikorsky amphibian in use.

Powered by two Pratt and Whitney Wasp Junior engines, the new machine will cruise at sea-level at 175 m.p.h., with a top speed of 195 m.p.h.

To acquire land in New Guinea for plantations, Buka Plantations and Trad ing Co. Ltd., with a capital of £75,000, was registered in Sydney in November.

The head office is at Rabaul, and the Sydney agent is C. A. Le M. Walker.

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