Sydney-NZ-Fiji-Hawaii-Nth. America

npHE Canadian-Australasian liner “Aorangi” (17,500 tons) recommenced a trans-Pacific service A between Sydney and North America in August. Her itinerary is Sydney, Auckland, Suva (Fiji), Honolulu (Hawaii), Victoria (Vancouver Island), and Vancouver (British Columbia, Canada). Time table for the Pacific section of her run is:—

Auckland, at 7 a.m. each Saturday for Laucala Bay, Suva (arrives 3.30 p.m.).

The aircraft departs from Laucala Bay, Suva, on the return journey at 7.30 a.m. each Monday, and arrives at Mechanics Bay, Auckland, at 4 p.m.

Laucala Bay (Suva)-Labasa (Vanua

LEVU): A “Sunderland” flying-boat operates this service on a charter basis. A return trip is made between Laucala Bay and Labasa each Sunday.

Auckland-Norfolk Island-Fiji-Tonga

Western Samoa-Cook Islands: A “Douglas”

airliner leaves Whenuapai, Auckland, on alter nate Sundays at 8.30 a.m. (January 9, 23, February 6, 20) for Norfolk Island (arr. 12.30 p.m., dep. 12.1 a.m. Monday), Nadi (arr. 6.55 a.m., dep. 5.40 a.m. Tuesday), Nausori (arr. 6.30 a.m., dep. 7.15 a.m.), Tonga (arr. 10.45 a.m., dep. 11.45 a.m.), *Apia, Western Samoa (arr. 4.10 p.m. Monday, dep. 7.45 a.m. Tuesday), Aitutaki,

Honolulu Aug. 4 RMS “Aorangi”

Jan. 27 Mar. 31 June 2 Suva Aug. 13 Feb. 5 Apr. 9 June 11 Auckland Aug. 16-18 Feb. 8-10 Apr. 12-14 June 14-16 Sydney, arr.

Aug. 22 Feb. 14 Apr. 18 June 20 Sydney, dep.

Sept. 22 Feb. 24 Apr. 28 July 4-5 Auckland Sept. 26-27 Feb. 28-Mar. 1 May 2-3 July 8 Suva Sept. 30 Mar. 4 May 6 July 15 Honolulu Oct. 7 Mar. 11 May 13 June 30 Subject to Alterations Without Notice.

Cook Islands (arr. 1.50 p.m., dep. 2.45 p.m.), and Rarotonga, Cook Islands (arr. 4.5 p.m).

The aircraft departs from Rarotonga on the return journey at 7.30 a.m. on alternate Thurs days (January 13, 27, February 10. 24) for Aitutakl (arr. 8.50 a.m., dep. 9.45 a.m.), Apia Western Samoa (arr. 3.35 p.m., dep. 8 a m’

Friday), *Tonga (arr. 11.15 a.m. Saturday, dep 12.15 p.m.), Nausori (arr. 3.10 p.m., dep. 4.15 p.m.), Nadi (arr. 5.5 p.m., dep. 2 a.m. Sunday) Norfolk Island (arr. 8.10 a.m., dep. 1 p.m.), and Whenuapai, Auckland (arr. 5.45 p.m.).

An additional return service between Raro tonga and Aitutaki is operated on alternate Wednesdays when traffic warrants. ♦Crosses International Date Line.

Auckland-Norfolk Island: A “Douglas”

airliner leaves Whenuapai, Auckland, every Sun day at 8.15 a.m. for Norfolk Island (arr. 12.15 p.m.), and departs on the return flight at 1 15 p.m., arriving at Whenuapai at 6 p.m.

FARES, single (in NZ currency): Auckland to Norfolk, £l2/10/-; to Fiji, £3l; to Tonga, £3l; to Samoa, £34; to Aitutakl. £39; to Raro tonga, £39/10/-. Norfolk to FIJI, £l9. Fiji to Tonga, £B/15/-; to Samoa, £l3; to Aitutaki, £29/15/-; to Rarotonga. £3l. Samoa to Raro tonga, £l7/15/-; to Aitutakl, £l6/10/-; Suva to Labasa, £4/10/-. Return fares, less 10 per cent.

BOOKING OFFICES: Wellington, Govt. Life Bldg., Customhouse Quay; Auckland Airways House, Customs St.; Dunedin, 8-10 Manse St.; Christchurch. Union SS Co., 168 Hereford 3t.; Gisborne. 74 Peel St.; Palmerston Nth . 107 Broadway Ave.; Hamilton, 8 Alma St.; Rotorua, Airport Bid., Fenton St.; Norfolk Is Burns Philp, Ltd.; Fiji, NAC at Nadi and Suva; Burns Philp, Labasa and Lautoka; Tonga. Mrs.

F. P. Melhose. Fou-amotu Airfield; W. Samoa Burns Philp (SS). Ltd., Apia; Cook Is., Mrs. P.

McVeagh, Aitutaki, and Mr. J. D. Campbell, Rarotonga.

Sydney-Vancouver

BCPA Service

ORITISH Commonwealth Pacific Airlines -U Limited operate a three trips per fortnight trans-Paciflc service from Sydney via FIJI, Canton Island, Honolulu and San Francisco; and a fortnightly service between Auckland and Vancouver, via the same air port.

Planes leave Sydney every Sunday evening and alternate Wednesdays, and Vancouver, on the southbound trip, every Sunday and alternate Thursdays. Planes leave Auckland every alter nate Wednesday and arrive in Vancouver the following Saturday. This southbound trip com mences from Vancouver on alternate Fridays.

Pares are (In Australian currency), Sydney- San Francisco, £2OO single and £360 return.

Auckland-Vancouver, £AI9B single; Auckland- Nadi (Fiji), £A39; Sydney-Nadi. £ASS.

Skymaster aircraft carrying 30 passengers, in fully-reclining slumber-seats, and a crew of nine are used on the service,

Trons-Tasman Service

Sydney—Auckland

r T'ASMAN Empire Airways, Ltd., operate a 1 flying-boat service between Rose Bay, Sydney and Mechanics Bay. Auckland. Large flying-boats, capable of carrying 30 passengers, are employed. The trip is comfortable, and takes approximately 8 hours.

The flying-boats leave both Sydney (6.30 a.m.) and Auckland (8 a.m.) every morning, including Sunday—seven flights each way per week. Fares: NZ currency) single; £63 (A) (£5O/8/- NZ currency) return.

In addition, this flying-boat service is, at pre sent. supplemented by a Skymaster service, details of which are available on application to TEA offices in Australia and New Zealand.

Bookings may be made at Tasman Empire Airways in Auckland and at Qantas Empire Air ways, Carrington Street. Sydney.

Pan-American—

Trans-Pacific Service

T)AN-AMERICAN World Airways clippers now ■- provide the following services in the South Pacific, using DC4 planes:— Planes leave Sydney every Friday and Tues day, and fly via Tontouta (New Caledonia) Nadi (FIJI), Canton Island, Honolulu, to San Francisco, and return along the same route, leaving ’Frisco every Tuesday and Saturday.

Planes leave Auckland every Friday and fly via Nadi. Canton Island, and Honolulu, to San Francisco; and leave ’Frisco for Auckland every Monday. Fares are given below, in Australian currency:—

(Time-tables and fares subject to alteration without notice.) To convert to Fiji currency, reduce above figures by about 10 per cent.

Free baggage aUowance is 66 lb. per person.

Excess baggage at 1 per cent, of single fare for each kilogram of excess (1 ki10—2.2 lb.). (Starting in February, three trips per week will turn 1 ) 1 bet Ween Sydney and S an Francisco and re-

Sydney-Noumea—Suva

(") NCE fortnightly a Qantas flying-boat (a Catalina), leaves Sydney in the early morning, and goes directly over the Pacific to Noumea. From Sydney to Noumea Is a Journey of about 11 hours. An overnight stop is made m Noumea, and Suva is reached the following afternoon. 6 Intending passengers should book through Qantas offices in Australia. Burns, Phllp (South Seas) Company, in Suva; and T. Johnston in Noumea.

Fares: To Noumea. £35 single: £63 return.

To Suva. £52/10/- single; £94/10/- return Noumea-Suva, £l7/10/- single; £3l/10/- re turn.

Sydney—Queensland—

New Guinea

Qantas Empire Airways, Ltd., employing DCS planes, operate a regular service between Sydney, Port Moresby, Lae, Finschhafen, Madang, and Rabaul, and return, via Brisbane, Rockhampton, Townsville and Cairns.

This service is now known as the “Bird of Paradise” Service. DC3 aircraft, carrying 19 passengers, are used.

Planes leave Sydney on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays at 9 a.m., and arrive at Lae at 1 p.m. on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays.

The plane which leaves Sydney on Wednesday and arrives at Lae on Thursday then goes on to Rabaul. It returns on Friday. The plane, which arrives at Lae on Tuesdays, then goes on to Madang, returning to Lae the same day.

Planes leave Lae at 5.45 a.m. on Wednesdays, Saturday and Sunday, and arrive In Sydney at 10 p.m., accomplishing the Lae-Sydney run in a day.

The return plane from Rabaul leaves at 1.30 p.m. on Fridays.

Bookings may be made at Qantas offices at any of the towns named. At present, berths are available only to passengers holding official per mits to visit Papua or New Guinea.

Sydney-Lord Howe ls.-

Norfolk Is.

QANTAS. Sydney, run a Catalina once weekly from Sydney to Lord Howe Island. Fare single. £l2. Return, £24.

COOK ISLANDS LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL: An official group during the visit to Rarotonga of Mr. A. G. Osborne. MP, Parliamentary Under-Secretary to the prime Minister, and Mr. R. T. G. Patrick, Secretary of Island Territories. Left to right in front are: Dr. R. M. Irwin, Makea Nui Teremoana Ariki, Mr. Osborne, Mr. W. Tailby, Resident Commissioner, Mr. Patrick, Jane Tarari Ariki, and Mr. W. H. Watson.

Single Return £ s. d. £ s. d Sydney-’Prisco 200 0 0 360 0 0 Sydney-PIJi 55 0 0 99 1 3 Auckland-’Frlsco ... 184 1 3 331 5 0 Auckland-Pljl 39 1 3 70 6 3 PlJi-’Frlsco 145 0 0 260 18 9

Trans Oceanic Airways Pty., Ltd., 14 Martin Place, Sydney, run a large flying-boat regularly between Sydney and Lord Howe Island, Qantas run a land plane about once a fort night from Sydney to Norfolk Island. Fare, £22 single; £39/12/- return. (For Norfolk Island, see also under NZ National Airways.)

Noumea-Fiji—'Tahiti

TRAPAS (a French company with headquarters in Noumea) ran an air service once a month from Noumea (New Caledonia), via Nadi (Fiji) and Altutaki (Cook Islands) to Papeete (Tahiti), and return.

It was announced in January that this was to become a fortnightly service; but service was suspended in March owing to hurricane damage.

New Caledonia—

New Hebrides

A PLANE based on Noumea runs between Noumea and Port Vila (New Hebrides), with calls at Santo and other places as required, and returns, twice each week.

Papua-NG Local

Services

MANDATED Airlines, Ltd., of Lae, New Guinea, and other private operators, run air ser vices between Lae and the New Guinea mainland centre? of Wau, Bulolo, Madang, Wewak, Aitape, Mt. Hagen, Finschhafen, Moresby, Kokoda—in fact anywhere in Papua or New Guinea where there is an air-strip. These planes carry pas sengers, mails and cargo on regular schedules or charter flights.

Guinea Air Traders Ltd., of Lae, New Guinea, employ six aircraft on local services, and on charter work.

Under arrangement with the Administration, a Qantas plane, carrying Administration personnel and cargo, and mails, flies once each week from Lae to Rabaul, Kavieng and Manus, and returns to Lae by the same route.

New Caledonia—New

Hebrides—Tahiti

A TRAPAS amphibian runs twice each week between New Caledonia and New Hebrides.

The days vary, but on the selected day the planes adhere to the following time-table:— Noumea—dep. 0630. Vila —arr. 0900 Vila—dep. 0945 Santo—arr. 1115 Santo—dep. 1145 Vila—arr. 1315 Vila—dep. 1400 Noumea —arr. 1630 A TRAPAS plane runs monthly between Noumea and Tahiti.

The death of Mrs. Gertrude Bindemann, a widely known and respected Suva resi dent, occurred on January 2. She was aged 81. The widow of Mr. G. M. Binde mann, formerly of Tonga, Mrs. Binde mann was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Henry Bentley, early settlers in Fiji.

The Anglican Bishop of New Guinea, the Rt. Rev. P. N. W. Strong, has recently been visiting the United States. When preaching at a New York church he said that New Guinea must be looked upon as sacred ground by Americans because so many of their servicemen died there.