R.N.Z.A.F, Pacific

Services

Changes Announced

CHANGES have been made in time tables for the RNZAF Pacific service.

The weekly Sunderland from Auckland will in future arrive at Laucala * Bay (Suva) on Fridays and will leave again for Auckland on Mondays.

At two-weekly intervals a Dakota trans port aircraft will leave Nausori on Satur day for Western Samoa direct, returning on the following day. In the inter mediate weeks, a Dakota will travel to Raratonga, via Tonga, Western Samoa and Aitutaki. These planes will return to Nausori on the following Friday.

The present weekly service from Fiji to New Zealand by way of Norfolk Island will be replaced by a four-weekly service between Fiji and New Zealand, via Ton touta (New Caledonia) and Norfolk Island. This service will start with an aircraft leaving Auckland on Wednesday, December 11, and arriving at Nausori on December 12. Another Dakota will leave Nausori on the same day as the plane leaves Auckland, and will fly to New Zea land, via Tontouta and Norfolk Island, taking two days on the journey.

The new arrangements mean that there will be a weekly service between Fiji and Auckland with an additional plane every fourth week. —Fiji Public Relations Office Bulletin.

THE Friday luncheon for Old Fijians and Fiji visitors at the Wentworth Hotel, Sydney, has become a regular institution. Those present at a happy party on January 10 included: Mr.

“Tommy” Horne, now living in Sydney in retirement; Mr. J. Dowling, Morris Hedstrom director, also retired; Mr. G. C.

Israel, Sydney manager of Morris Hed strom Ltd.; Mr. I. E. Lucchinelli, of the Fiji Police, now in Sydney on leave; Captain MacDonald, acting as mariine superintendent for the Western Pacific High Commission, in Sydney on business: Dr. R. W. D. Maxwell, superintendent of the War Memorial Hosoital, Suva; Mr.

J. T. Johnson, formerly secretary of Morris Hedstrom Ltd., Suva; and Mr. C.

S. St. Julian, of the Fiji Customs, in Australia on leave.

Mr. Roy McGregor of Madang, New Guinea, was in Sydney in January on a short business trip. He, with Mrs. Mc- Gregor who has been in Sydney since the general evacuation of the Territory in 1942, will return to New Guinea by air on January 22.

At St. James Church Katoomba on Jan uary 4, Miss Vi Hammon was married to Mr. Kevin Minogue of Port Moresby.

Mrs. G. I. Phillpott, formerly of Rabaul, was matron-of-honour. Mr. Minogue was with Amalgamated .Wireless in Rabaul before the war; he has been with a government department in Moresby re cently but on his return to the Territory will go back to AWA.