Pan American

Airways

Proposed Yacht Link Between Noumea and Australia

A CORRESPONDENT of the “New Zealand Herald”, writing from Van couver on April 10, said definitely that Pan American Airways would com mence their San Francisco-Honolulu- Canton Is.-Noumea-Auckland service on May 15. But nothing has happened. The correspondent then made this statement: “There being no suitable accommoda tion at Noumea, the company has pur chased a yacht, the ‘Lyndonia’, for use as a floating hotel, in case the Clippers are held there by bad weather.

“It has been arranged also to utilise the ‘Lyndonia’, in good weather, to carry passengers from Noumea to Australia while the Clipper carries the remainder to New Zealand. The y&cht can return to Noumea with Australian mail and pas sengers by the time the Clipper returns from Auckland.”

The announcements that there is no suitable hotel accommodation in Noumea, and that a new shipping service between Noumea and Australia is planned, will be heard with the liveliest interest in New Caledonia.