No Interference With N.G.
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Air Mail Service
From Our Own Correspondent.
WAU, June 26.
SOME time ago, it was reported that the Commonwealth Government was trying to induce Carpenter and Co., to terminate its air mail service at Towns ville thus leaving the N.G. and Papuan traffic to be picked up there and taken South by one of the Australian inter state air lines. When New Guinea resi dents learned what was afoot, strong pro tests were made.
The N.G. Mining Association has been informed by Canberra that the Federal Government has now no in tention of interfering -with the through
air service from New Guinea to Sydney.
It probably would have ruined the pas senger traffic had the service been cut off at Cooktown or Townsville. The great attraction at present is that one enters a plane at Rabaul or Salamaua and leaves it at Brisbane or Sydney, without having to change or chase one’s baggage.
Mrs. A. C. Turnbull, wife of the Acting Administrator of Western Samoa, arrived in New Zealand from Apia by the June “Matua” with her daughter, Ruth, who will enter an Auckland college.
Lieutenant-Colonel J. Walstab, Super intendent of Police in New Guinea, reached Sydney from Rabaul on holidays by the “Tanda” on June 23. He was ac companied by Mrs. Walstab.