Sydney—Auckland

Pan-American— Trans-Pacific Service

PAN-AMERICAN World Airways clippers now provide the following services in the South Pacific, using DC4 planes, equipped with Sleep erettes : Planes leave Sydney every Friday, Sunday and Tuesday for San Francisco, via Tontouta (New Caledonia). Nandi (Fiji). Canton Island and Honolulu. The return flights are made from San Francisco every Tuesday. Thursday and Sat urday. via Honolulu. Canton Island, Nandi and Tontouta.

Planes leave Auckland every Tuesday and Thursday, and fly via Nandi, Canton Island and Honolulu to Portland and Seattle. They leave Seattle for Auckland every Sunday and Friday by the same route. Pares, in Australian cur rency, are:—

To convert to Fiji currency, reduce above figures by about 10 per cent.

Free baggage allowance is 66 lb. per person.

Excess baggage at 1 per cent, of single fare for each kilogram of excess (1 ki10—2.2 lb.).

Trans-Tasman Service

Sydney—Auckland

HpASMAN Empire Airways, Ltd., operate a A flying-boat service between Rose Bay.

Sydney, and Mechanics Bay, Auckland. Large flying-boats, capable of carrying 30 passenger*. are employed. The trip is comfortable, and takes approximately 8 hours.

The flying-boats leave both Sydney (6 a.m.)

and Auckland (8 a.m.) every morning, including Sunday-seven flights each way per week. Pares: £3S(A) (£2B NZ currency) single; £63(A) (£5O/8/- NZ currency) return.

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VSUinetl /"V ANT AS Empire Airways, Ltd., employing DC3 Dianes, operate a regular service between Sydney, Port Moresby, Lae, Finschhafen.

Madang, and Rabaul, and return, via Brisbane, Rockhampton. Townsville and Cairns, Thls ser vice is now known as the "Bird o t

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Paradise” Service. DC3 aircraft, carrying 19 passengers, are useo.

Plames 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-Noumea-Suva

THE following is the time-table of the Qantas flying-boat:—

Intending passengers may 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-Lord Howe ls.-

Norfolk Is.

QANTAS, Sydney, run a Catalina once weekly from Sydney to Lord Howe Island. Pare, single, £l2. Return, £2l/12/-.

Qantas run a land plane alt. Thursdays (re turning same day) from Sydney to Norfolk Island. Fare, £22 single; £39/12/- return. (For Norfolk Island, see also under NZ National Airways. For Lord Howe, see also under TOA.)

Noumeo-Fiji-Tahiti

'X'HAPAS (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.

The Trapas Co. also runs a service to New Hebrides—see under Caledonia-New Hebrides.

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. 1315 0945 Santo —arr. 1115 Santo—dep. 1145 Vila—arr. 0900 Vila —dep. 1400 Noumea—arr. 1630 A TRAPAS plane runs monthly between Noumea and Tahiti.

TOA Services

TRANS Oceanic Airways run the following Pacific services:— SYDNEY-LORD HOWE IS.: A regular fort nightly service with large four-engine flying boats from Rose Bay. Pare: £ll single; £2l return. Free baggage allowance 50 lb. Excess baggage and freight rate 6d. per lb.

SYDNEY-NEW HEBRIDES; A regular monthly service with large four-engine flying-boats from Sydney, via Noumea (overnight stop), to Vila and Espiritu Santo. Pare: Sydney-Vlla, £45: Sydney-Santo, £5O; Noumea-Vila, £l2/10/-; Noumea-Santo. £lB/15/-. Freight: Sydney-Vila, 2/- per lb.; Sydney-Santo. 2/3.

Sydney-Solomon Islands; A Regular

monthly service from Sydney, via New Cale donia and New Hebrides to Tulagi. Solomon Islands. This service is frequently extended to Llngatou. in the Russell Islands, and calls are sometimes made at Vanikoro. in the Santa Cruz Group. Pares: Sydney-Tulagi, £65. Free bag gage allowance, 60 lb.; excess baggage and. freight, 3/- per lb.

Sydney dep. 9 p.m. alt. Tues.

Noumea .. , , . . arr. 6.55 a.m. alt. Wed.

Noumea dep. 7.55 a.m. alt. Wed.

Suva arr. 2.55 p.m. alt. Wed.

Suva dep. 6 a.m. alt. Frid.

Noumea arr. 11 a.m, alt. Frid.

Noumea . . .. .. dep. 12 noon alt. Frid.

Sydney arr. 7.45 p.m. alt. Frid.