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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 July 1950Vol. XX, No. 12

To Tahiti

p. 30 · Read in the full issue

Air France Service

From Our Brisbane Correspondent ACCORDING to newspaper reports Brisbane’s tired business men will soon be able to spend their vacation in Tahiti.

An Air France service between Bris bane and the island is reported to be commencing on July 15. The Austra lian general manager of Air France (M.

Petit) said recently, in Brisbane, that the new service would cater for tourist traffic between Australia and Tahiti, and that it would be via Noumea, Fiji, the Cook Islands, and the Society Islands.

Freight and mail would be carried, and single fare would be about £l2O. The actual flying time between Brisbane and Tahiti would be approximately 26 hours.