Fuel Oil In The Islands

IN the Papua-New Guinea Gazette of September 7 tenders are invited for the purchase of considerable quan tities of aviation spirit and oil, which are lying at some of the villages and beaches of Goodenough Island, Eastern Papua.

There is no indication of how long the goods have been there—but presumably they are a heritage of the war, which moved out of this area at least 5 years ago. There are many traders who might have liked to tender for this fuel and oil —now in desperately short supply—but the invitation to tender was published on September 7 and tenders closed in Port Moresby on September 23.

Mr. L. A. G. Hooke, Managing Director of Amalgamated Wireless of Australia, Ltd., has been appointed a director of British Commonwealth Pacific Airlines, which operates a trans-Pacific air ser vice and which is owned jointly by Aus tralia (50 per cent.), New Zealand (30 per cent.), and Britain (20 per cent.). Mr.

Hooke will represent Britain. Other mem bers of the Board are Sir Leonard Isitt and Messrs. A. W. Coles, and G. P. N.

Watt.