Air Service
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WRC Establish An Air Service For NG Personnel
AGAIN W. R. Carpenter &! Co. Ltd., has demonstrated its ability to solve what, to ordinary people, are insup erable difficulties.
In New Guinea, where inter-island transport is still in a chaotic condition, the firm had inaugurated its own flying boat service for general movement of personnel.
Two Catalinas, based on Madang, are used in the service. Captain Hugh Birch, ex-RAAF is in charge, with Pilot H.
Couchman, also ex-RAAF, his second in command.
Captain “Sandy” Meldrum who is well known in New Guinea waters, has been in Melbourne recently supervising repairs and alterations to an addition to the W.
R. Carpenter & Co’s fleet—LCG 18. Cap tain Paterson is carrying out similar work in Sydney on a newly-acquired LCT for the same firm.
Return of "Shell Show"
AFTER an absence of eight years, the “Shell Show,” Australia’s first big live artiste variety programme, is return ing to the air. The Programme com menced on March 26 and will be broad cast every Wednesday at 8 p.m. for three quarters of an hour. The show will be relayed by 2GB Macquarie Network and a number of co-operating stations in all six States of the Commonwealth.