Peace-Time “Biscuit
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Bombing” In Ng
A QANTAS Douglas freighter recently undertook the job of dropping sup plies in the Purari River area, Papua, for an Australian petroleum com pany field party. In all, 90,000 lb. of supplies were dropped, involving a total of 16 lifts. Only loss incurred during the operation was one 40 lb. bag of sugar.
Earlier dropping operations were car ried out in this same area in November and December, 1948.
Similar operations to the Goilala Valley, which were carried out in October and November, 1948, successfully de livered, among other items, 11,200 lb. of rice, 2,805 tins of meat, 180 lb, of tobacco, 3 shotguns and 600 shotgun cartridges.
Supplies still have to be dropped by air in many parts of New Guinea where no landing facilities exist.
In addition to the Qantas Empire Air ways’ Bird of Paradise airlines linking New Guinea and Papua to Australia, there are 12 QEA aircraft based in New Guinea for internal operations.
These operations consist of services to Kavieng and Manus, and charter flights to many areas in the Highlands.