Air Base In New Hebrides

r ERE is a report current in Sydney that one of the numerous air bases which are being prepared in the Pacific Islands, will be located at Port Stanley, near the plantation of Mr. E.

Corlette, on Malekula Island, in the New Hebrides. It is stated that this will be an ideal site for aeroplanes, and that a sea plane base in the vicinity is also possible.

During the Western Pacific High Com missioner’s recent visit to the New Hebrides, an officer from H.M.S. “Welling ton” commented very favourably on the Brakor Lagoon, on Efate Island, as a sea plane base (says our Vila correspondent).

He estimated that the broad upper pool of

this Lagoon has a suitable landing area of at least a square mile. It is sheltered on the north, east and south-east by hills and thickly wooded slopes; and its waters are quite calm at all seasons of the year.

Mr, Tulsi Ram Sharma has been ad mitted to the Fiji Bar as a barrister and solicitor, on the motion of Sir Henry Scott, by His Honour the Chief Justice, Sir Owen Corrie.