Increased Air Services
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Cope With
Rabaul Passengers Freight
From a Special Correspondent HUNDREDS of air travellers are still passing through Rabaul and local air services have been increased again to cope with them and with cargo, Qantas service from Lae through Rabaul to the Solomons is now running once a week instead of once every two weeks, as formerly. Mandated Air Lines run passenger services on Mondays and Fridays from the mainland to Rabaul and freight specials are coming in almost every day. This Sunday, as I write, three freight specials have been in.
All this activity is proof enough, if proof is necessary, that business is increasing in this area and not slipping back.
The French National Geographic In stitute, which comes under the Ministry of Public Works and Transport, has sent a party of three to New Caledonia to carry out work preliminary to the preparation of an up-to-date survey map of the Colony, in which work they will be as sisted by surveyors of the local Public Works Department. This preparatory work is expected to take three years, and will include aerial surveys.