Qantas Completes S-W Pacific Airways Circuit With
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Lae-Honiara Service
From Our Own Correspondent
Rabaul, June 15.
THE inaugural flight of the Lae-BSI Qantas air-service returned to Rabaul, en route Lae, to-day. Ten passengers were carried.
This flight is to be run fortnightly, commencing from Lae on alternate Mon days. Calls will be made at Rabaul, Toro kina (Bougainville), Munda (Kolomban gara, BSD and Honiara. The plane will stay overnight at Honiara and return to Lae, by the same route, on alternate Tuesdays. DC3 Aircraft will be used.
Not only does this bring an extra mail service to Rabaul, but it gives such isolated spots as Torokina and Munda, swift, modern communication with the outside world. And, by linking up with the Qantas Sydney—New Hebrides— Solomon Islands service at Honiara, makes it possible for travellers to make a Sydney to Sydney trip calling at Port Moresby, Lae, Rabaul, Bougainville, BSI, New Hebrides, New Caledonia—without cover ing the same ground twice.
The apprenticeship system in Fiji is to be studied by a newly-appointed com mittee comprising the chief manager in Fiji of the Colonial Sugar Refining Co.
Ltd. (Mr. E. H. Griffiths), the general manager of the Associated Gold Mining Companies (Mr. N. E. Nilsen), the Super visor of Technical Services (Mr. R. A.
Derrick) and Messrs. J. Mercer and N. F.
C. Cowan. The committee will examine the present arrangements for training ap prentices and other juveniles in industry and will advise whether a uniform and controlled system of apprenticeship should be established.