New Base For Paa In

N. Caledonia

TN Noumea it is anticipated that Pan- X America Airways trans-Pacific ser vice, suspended since January, 1942, will be resumed in December. The service formerly was by clipper-seaplanes, but land-based planes will now be used.

Until the new Oua-Tom airfield, 47 miles out of Noumea, is completed for

the company, planes will use the old bomber base af the Plaine des Gaiacs, constructed by Australian Roads Board men and machines, by the Hawaiian Con struction Company—an American civi lian concern under US Army engineers —and by over 300 Javanese coolies under French overseers, during the first half of 1942. This base played an important part in the Solomons offensive.

It is 170 miles from Noumea up the

west coast.-

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