No Air Service for Tonga?

Nukualofa, May 19.

IT has been announced here that the regular air service connecting Tonga with Suva and Auckland, on the one side, and Samoa, on the other, will cease to operate as from June 30, and we apparently will be without an air service after that.

As announced on page 25, Tasman Empire Airways soon will commence a flying-boat service between Auckland and Tahiti, via Fiji, Samoa and Cook Islands.

At present, NZ National Airways run a land-plane service between Auckland, Fiji, Tonga, Samoa and Cook Islands. It has not been reported that the latter service is being modified; but it seems likely that TEA, running along the same route, will take over some of the NZ National Air ways services, and that Tonga is being wiped out, as part of the rearrangement.