Helping Pacific Aviation
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THE Australian Department of Civil Aviation will spend more than £27,000 on a passenger terminal at Norfolk Island. Qantas Empire Airways and the NZ National Airways Corporation operate services to the island.
The CA Department will also spend £20,000 to complete the aerodrome on Fisherman’s Island off the coast of Papua near Port Moresby. This aero drome will be an alternative when bad weather closes the drome at Moresby.
At present Lae, on the other side of the Owen Stanleys, or Cooktown on the Aus j tralian mainland, are the nearest alter natives.
A Tahitian boy named Hector Bennett, arrived in Sydney in mid-June on the Chungking. But all Hector saw of the nietronolis was from the ship’s brig. While the liner was in Papeete he mingled with friends who were on their way to Noumea and just did not get off when other visitors went ashore. When the ship’s Master found that he had a non-paying passenger, he put Hector in the brig.