Request For A Subsidy.

Guinea Airways Darwin

Service.

THE Federal Government is giving consideration to a request by the Darwin Chamber of Commerce that the weekly Air-Mail service between Ade laide and Darwin, conducted by Guinea Airways, Ltd., be granted a subsidy, Guinea Airways, Ltd., have informed the Government that it cannot continue to run the service at a loss, although every

one recognises that this regular service is of great benefit to the Territory.

It is being urged that incoming air mails should be sorted in Darwin, and the South and West Australian portion, at least, be sent on the Guinea Airways service, direct to Adelaide, thus reduc ing delivery time by a day or two. The mails, otherwise, are carried away east, via Brisbane and Sydney.

Mr. E. G. Theodore reached Sydney by the March “Aorangi” after a visit to his Fiji goldmining interests.

Rev. Father Bernard Wobken, S.M., of the Marist Mission, Cawaci, Fiji, arrived in New Zealand by the February “Mariposa”, on two months’ holiday.

Ordained a priest in Germany in 1931, he went to Fiji the following year and spent four years at the Sacred Heart Cathedral, Suva. For the past two years, he has had charge of the edu cational centre at Cawaci, where there are five different schools.

Rev. J. P. Jarman, L.Th., of South Australia* has been accepted by the Board of Methodist Overseas Mission to replace Rev. A. W. Guy, recently re tired, at Bunama, Papua. After a period of training at the George Brown College, Sydney, he will depart for the Territory, with his wife.