New Guinea Plane
p. 28 · Read in the full issue
Service
Booked Out For Months Ahead
From Our Own Correspondent
Rabaul, Jan. 30.
ANYONE desirous of flying to Sydney from Rabaul must be prepared to wait until some time in May, before he can book a seat in the mail ’plane.
Such a situation, where very often on account of medical or family reasons, persons have urgent need of travelling, calls for some action by the authorities who have charge of these matters.
The same traffic congestion is reported by persons desirous of travelling south from the goldfields end of New Guinea.
Mr. Alain Gerbault, who has become famous for his many lone voyages around the Pacific, passed through Apia, Western Samoa, in January on a voyage to Indo china. He will visit Tonga en route and expects to be back in the Central Pacific by October. While in Samoa, Mr. Ger bault played the former tennis champion of the Territory, Mr. Chris. Hellesloe, in a three-set match. Mr. Gerbault was once a tennis star of international rank ing and it caused no surprise when he defeated Mr. Hellesloe.