New Flying-Boat for NZ-Suva
pp. 87-89 · Read in the full issue
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EARLY in April the New Zealand Air ways Corporation added the Sun derland flying-boat “Takitimu” to its NZ-Suva fleet.
This aircraft was one of four delivered to the RNZAF in 1945. Work of con version to civil requirements was begun in September, 1948. It will now carry 26 passengers and a crew of eight.
Mr. Robert Dick, who was formerly a Resident Magistrate in Papua, and who now is living in retirement in Australia is a patient at the Ryde District Soldiers* Memorial Hospital, Denistone Road, East wood. He does not know many people in Sydney and would be glad to see former Papuan friends.
A Paris financial paper d scussing Nickel Company production in New Caledonia says that about 5,000 tons of 77 per cent, matte is expected in 1949, from the Yate and Doniambo smelters.
Miss Pat White, a 26-years-old Sydney woman, is going to British Solomon Islands headquarters at Honiara as radio officer—an unusual appointment for a
woman. She became interested in radio as a member of the WRANS, and later, with great determination, acquired the necessary training and certificates.