Canton Is.
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Preparation As Station On South Pacific Air Service
From Our Own Correspondent
Honolulu, Jan. 4.
ACCORDING to Mr. John Boyle, an expert with the Pacific division of Pan American Airways, his company has done nothing on Canton Island ex cept stake out a proposed site for an operations base. He said, too, that much work must be done at Canton, including the blasting away of coral heads in the lagoon, before the island can be used by commercial airboats.
Mr. Boyle returned last week from. a special survey of Canton Island.
A resume of reports appearing in the U.S. national press indicates that Pan American will concentrate on improving the North Pacific service (which is be ing operated with only two clippers and is much behind schedule), and upon launching a North Atlantic service to meet the promise of competition from another American company, and Brit ish, French and German interests.