N.G. Govt. Airmail Contract Goes

to Guinea Airways

The new Government contract for the aerial transport of mails, goods and passengers in New Guinea—tenders for which closed early in February—has gone mostly to Guinea Airways Ltd. The Salamaua-Madang section remains with Mandated Airlines.

The contract, after being held for a long time by Guinea Airways, was secur ed about four years ago by the newly arrived aeroplanes of Carpenter and Co (now Mandated Airlines Ltd.); and it has been held by the latter ever since.

Mr. A. F. J. White, formerly District Commissioner at Ra, Fiji, was committed for trial at Suva on February 18 on charges of stealing £155, from public funds. Mr. White was on leave in Eng land, but returned immediately to Fiji when informed, in December, that there appeared to be irregularities in his ac counts.