Pacific Islands Monthly
The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930
Pacific Islands Monthly, 18 November 1946Vol. XVII, No. 4

New Islands Air Services

p. 72 · Read in the full issue

Page 7272

AUSTRALIAN Civil Aviation Depart ment experts recently passed through Brisbane on their way to the Islands of the South-west Pacific.

They will investigate Islands airfields to decide which are suitable for the pro posed regional services to be operated by Qantas from Australia. (See October

Pim.)

The airfields to be visited include: Noumea, in New Caledonia.

Vile (Efate Island) and Espiritu Santo in the New Hebrides, Kieta, in Bougainville.

Honiara (Guadalcanal) in the British Solomons.

All were built during the war.

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