Larger Aircraft
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New Hebrides
VILA, June 6.
Commencing with its Mdy 9 flight from Sydney, almost 18 months after the first of the regular flights from Sydney to Santo (October, 1948) Qantas Empire Airways replaced its Catalinas with Sandringhams.
Approximately the same size as the Sunderland, though more modern, the new Sandringham will carry 30 passen gers, more freight and a crew of eight
(including two stewards against the Catalina’s one).
Captain Solly, long familiar to pas sengers flying between Sydney and Santo, was Captain of the new aircraft on its initial voyage.
The many friends of Mrs. W. C.
Groves, wife of the Director of Education in Papua-New Guinea, will learn with regret that she has been seriously ill, in Melbourne; but latest re ports indicate that she is making satis factory progress. Mr. Groves went South, from Port Moresby, in June, to be with her.: