New Air Services In

Western Pacific

AIR services affecting the tropical ter ritories continue to expand.

The Federal authorities are trying to find enough flat country in a suitable locality on Thursday Island (in Torres Strait) to construct an aerodrome, but so far without success. It is hoped to pro vide Thursday Island with a regular ser vice, with land-planes.

Dutch aviation companies continue to show an interest in Papua and New Guinea. A Dutch line is being estab lished between Java and Dutch New Guinea, and it is thought that it would be easy to extend the service into British New Guinea and on to Australia. Messrs.

F. W. J. Surink and D. C. Ruygrok, aerial surveyor and flight sunerintendent of K.N.I.L.M. (well-known Dutch East In dies aviation company) arrived in Port Moresby on October 8 to make inquiries.

Miss Hester Clark, of Nausori, who has spent 26 years working among the In dians in Fiji on behalf of the Methodist Mission, will retire at the end of October.

Mr. and Mrs. A. C. English, of Rigo.

Papua, arrived in Australia from Port Moresby by the September “Macdhui”.

Master Edward Schaaffhausen, youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Schaaffhausen, well-known residents of Western Samoa, died in Apia Government Hospital on Sep tember 16, from typhoid fever. Only 16 years of age, he. had just finished his education at Ifi Ifi Government school, where he was a popular and clever pupil.

Miss M. Harris, of the Methodist Mis sion at Ulu, New Britain, reached Sydney from Rabaul on furlough by the “Tanda” on September 22.