Pacific Islands Monthly
The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930
Pacific Islands Monthly, 19 April 1947Vol. XVII, No. 9

Australia To Control

p. 10 · Read in the full issue

Page 1010

Norfolk Is. Airport

THE airport of Norfolk Island which has been controlled by the Royal New Zealand Air Force since it was com pleted in 1943, has now been taken over by Australia. A party of RAAF personnel and civil aviation officials left Sydney in April to complete the transfer.

The airport of the island was com menced in August, 1942, and the bulk of the work was done by the Australian Allied Works Council. However, although Australian territory, the Island came within the sphere of influence of New Zealand’s Air Force during the war. Nor folk Island has been a stop-over on one of the RNZAF’s Pacific services; presum ably it will continue to be so.

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