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Pacific Islands Monthly, 15 February 1939Vol. IX, No. 7

Progress Of Sydney-Rabaul

p. 11 · Read in the full issue

Airmail

THERE is a mounting volume of com plaints from Papua and New Guinea about the inability of the Sydney- Rabaul airmail to carry all the passen gers offering. The Federal authorities are giving attention to a request that the service be duplicated.

The new aerodrome at Lakunai, Ra baul, will not be used by the big airmail machines before Anril. A small machine from Mandated Airlines has been using the aerodrome, lately, however.

Mr. and Mrs. L. C.‘ Smith and their son John, returned to Wau, by the “Bulolo” early in February, after two months’ holiday in Melbourne. He has been in New Guinea for 15 years and is employed by New Guinea Goldfields Ltd., on the Morobe Goldfield.