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New Guinea Air
Will be Run in Future by Qantas
IT was announced by the Australian Government in March that, although air transport services running within Australia are to be nationalised, the ser vices running from Australia to places outside the country remain under private control.
It was stated that, following upon the sale to Qantas, Ltd., of the Australian- New Guinea service run by W. R.
Carpenter & Co., Ltd., Qantas, Ltd., would, as soon as possible, re-establish the regular air service between Australia, Papua and New Guinea, which was inter rupted in 1942 by the Japanese invasion.
W. R. Carpenter & Co., Ltd., and Burns Philp & Co., Ltd., are large shareholders in Qantas, Ltd.
It is believed that the Australian-New Guinea air service will become part of an
important air link between Australia and the Far East.
Although Sir Walter Carpenter is now living in Canada, he remains chairman of the board of the parent company. Mr. R.
B. Carpenter is managing director, and Mr. C. H. Carpenter is assistant managing director. Those three, with Messrs. W.
S. Bennett, D. J. Brownhill and Sir Henry Braddon constitute the board of W. R.
Carpenter & Co., Ltd. The constitution of the board was erroneously stated in the January issue of this journal.
Mr. W. H. B. Buckhurst, Assistant Dir ector of Surveys in Fiji, has been appointed to be Director of Lands, Mines and Surveys. He commenced his service with the Fiji Government in April, 1928.
Lieut. Geoff. Kilner, of Rabaul, writ ing to his wife on December 11, 1944, from a Japanese prison camp, reported that he was “fit and well.” Mr. Kilner’s reports on other New Guinea prisoners are pub lished elsewhere in this issue.
Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Ragg, of Fiji, are at present spending three months’ holi day in Australia and New Zealand.
Mr. Henry Edwin Addis was killed in Suva, Fiji, on February 10, when he fell from the balcony of the Colonial Memorial Hospital. He was born in the Colony in 1913 and held many posts in the Govern ment service. Last year he met with a motor accident which seriously affected his nerves. He was the fourth son of Mr. and Mrs. A. Val Addis, of Suva.
Commander H. Mayo Harris, formerly Vicar of the Suva Pro-Cathedral, is at present stationed at Flinders Naval Depot, Victoria (Australia). Writing recently to friends in Suva, he said that he, his wife and their daughter were eagerly looking forward to their return to Suva some day.
His job at present is to arrange the training of all officers entering the service or doing later courses.