French Air Service In
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Pacific
rE local New Caledonian air compay, Trapas, announces the price of air passages to the New Hebrides. Single fares from Noumea to Vila are 2 000 francs and to Santo 3,000 francs. Return tickets carry a reduction of 5 per cent, and are available for three months The governor of New Caledonia, Mon sieur Parisot, recently flew to the Wallis Group by Trapas plane. This was the first time that Noumea and Wallis have been linked by a commercial service Wallis, of course, although inhabited by Polynesians, is a French governed terri tory administered, not as part of French Oceania, but by the New Caledonian ad ministration. The natives there recently showed hostility to the French Resident— a matter which no doubt the Governor had in mind in flying there. % Finschhafen, New Guinea, welcomed recently Mrs. J. R. Palmer, attractive bnae of Mr. “Ambrose” Palmer, popular member of the Government Stores staff.