New Caledonia Interested

From Our Own Correspondent

Noumea, Apr. 25.

rpHE people of this important French X Colony have learned with satis faction that Noumea will be a re gular stopping-place on at least one of the trans-Pacific services which Pan- American Airways are planning.

We hope to have ready access to both Australia and New Zealand. A sojourn in one or other of those cool countries is needed occasionally by most people here, if health is to be maintained in an enervating climate, and most travellers are now air-minded.

Just before the Jap war caused the suspension of the PAA service, PAA sent their hotel manager here, and plans were made for a large modern hgtel on a site near Anne Vata beach. It is supposed that that plan, or something similar, will be proceeded with.

Flight-Sergeant R. C. Kerkham, RAF, has been promoted to Warrant-Officer.

He was formerly a resident of Fiji.