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Hebrides
Prom Our Own Correspondent VILA, July 1.
ON a survey flight, a Qantas plane arrived in Vila on June 6 from Suva, with six passengers for Sydney. The plane should have gone to Vila from Sydney via Noumea but, owing to bad weather, it was diverted to Suva.
The first official flight from Sydney to the New Hebrides, via Noumea, thus in augurating a new service, was made suc cessfully at the end of June.
This group also gets a flying-boat ser vice from Trans-Oceanic Airways, of Sydney.
On May 27, an American Army plane (a DC4) arrived in Vila and landed at Bauer Field (built by the Americans dur ing the war). It carried a crew of seven, with three Army officers as passengers.
The object of the visit was to dispose of bomb dumps said to have been found near the airfield. The plane left Vila for Santo on May 29 for a similar pur pose.