Sydney-Moresby Service
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TOA to Start with Weekly Solent on May 27
HAVING successfully surmounted its various problems (i.e., the refusal of the Civil Aviation Department to permit the use of Townsville as an inter mediary stop, and the destruction of a new Solent flying-boat at Malta, when en route to Australia) Trans Oceanic Air ways Pty., Ltd,, on May 4, announced that it would commence its weekly service, Sydney-Port Moresby, on May 27.
The TO A Solent flying-boat (four en gines, all latest amenities for passengers) will depart from Rose Bay, Sydney, every Sunday, at 7.15 p.m.; arrive Brisbane 10 p.m.; depart at 11.30 p.m.; and arrive in Port Moresby at 6.30 a.m. every Monday.
The Solent will commence at Moresby
with a Mandated Airlines DCS Skyliner, which will depart at 8.45 a.m. on Mon days, and arrive at Lae at 10.5 a.m. MAL then provides connections for Bulolo and Wau tdue at 12.25 p.m.) and for Madang and Wewak.
The DCS will leave Lae every Monday at 5.45 a.m., and connect at Moresby with the Solent, which will leave Moresby for Brisbane every Monday at 8.30 a.m., and arrive in Sydney at 7.30 p.m., with a II hours’ stop in Brisbane en route.
The company announces a schedule of fares and baggage rates which are com petitive.