Pacific Islands Monthly
The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930
Pacific Islands Monthly, 15 June 1939Vol. IX, No. 11

Aerodrome For Thursday Is.

p. 29 · Read in the full issue

Page 2929

From Our Own Correspondent

. Thursday Is., May 22.

i PARTY of Defence Department offi- L cials have been busy on Horn Island, on the other side of Thursday Island arbour, surveying and planning for the 'oposed official aerodrome there. The srodrome, on Thursday Island itself, can •ovide only a runway of 300 yards.

Dr. P. Monoghan, who has been Chief edical Officer in Western Samoa for me years, is at present on a visit to ie United States. He intends to visit ; e New York World Fair and probably ill spend some time studying tropical edicine at the Rockefeller Institute.

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