Noumea-Tahiti Air Mail
p. 97 · Read in the full issue
THE TRAPAS air service (French) be tween New Caledonia and Tahiti, via Fiji, Samoa and Cook Islands, was resumed in November, and was heartily welcomed. Tahiti, in a mail sense, has been isolated to an embarrassing extent since the then newly-established TRAPAS service was suspended early in 1948, when a hurricane destroyed some of the TRAPAS planes in Noumea.
Australian air-mails to Tahiti go via New Caledonia, and Australian air-mails to New Caledonia close in Sydney every two or three days. The air-mails go on from Noumea to Tahiti once each month; and the airmail from Australia for Tahiti via New Caledonia closes in Sydney about the 14th of each month.
Airmail rates to Tahiti from Australia are: Post-cards, 5d.; other articles, 9d. per I oz. or portion thereof.
It is hoped that the TRAPAS Noumea- Tahiti service soon will run twice each month.