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Ansett's Interest in
ANSETT Airways was interested in buying only the major links of New Zealand air lines, said the chairman of directors, Mr. R. M. Ansett, in Melbourne on August 23.
If negotiations succeeded, Ansett Air ways would form a public company in New Zealand with some New Zealand capital and some local directors.
Mr. Ansett said some feeder lines in the New Zealand system could best be run by one-man operators. New Zealand National Airways services to the Pacific Islands could be maintained only with heavy Government subsidies.
“We are interested,” he said, “in setting up an organisation in New Zealand simi lar to our business in Australia—buses, holiday tours, hotels and airways.
Canon J. D. Bodger, who has been with the Anglican Mission in Papua since 1929, was in Queensland on sick leave in early September. He will shortly sail for the United Kingdom on furlough.
Mr. George Rio, well-known Territorian, has recently transferred from New Britain to the Sepik River, where he will work for Bulolo Gold Dredging Ltd.