Air Service to Samarai
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From Our Own Correspondent
Samarai, Nov. 3.
VTEGOTIATIONS still are proceeding 11 between the Administration and Guinea Airways Ltd. for an aerial service between Port Moresby and Samarai.
The latest proposal is that an alternate weekly service be provided along the Papuan coast —one week to Samarai (at the eastern end of the Territory) and the next to Daru (in the Western Division). The plane would leave Port Moresby the same day the Sydney-NG plane arrived there, en route to Rabaul.
It is understood that Guinea Airways are seeking a subsidy of £3,000 for the service.
Indications are that the passenger fare by air from Ft. Moresby to Samarai would be £4/10/-, which is the same as by steamer, and from Pt. Moresby to Daru, £6/10/-, which works out at £l/5/above the boat rate. Freight charges would be 3d., 4d., and 6d. per pound, according to the distance carried.