Plane To Nauru
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Survey Flight Expected To Inaugurate New Service
AS a preliminary, it is believed, to the inauguration of a regular service be tween Australia and the phosphate islands, Qantas (Australia) last month sent a Douglas plane on a survey flight from Sydney to Nauru, via Brisbane, Cairns and Guadalcanal (Solomon Islands)-.
The plane, which was in charge of Captain J. Boddington, carried no passengers. It left Sydney on December 20, arrived in Nauru on December 22, and left the following day on its return trip, The arrival of the plane was an event of first-class importance to isolated Nauru, and the inauguration of a regular service is eagerly anticipated. If the flight is extended another 180 miles, to Ocean Island (where there is a similar community based on great phosphate workings) life in these equatorial islands will take on a different aspect.