Better Air Service

For Eastern

New Guinea Islands

Prom Our Own Correspondent

Rabaul. July 1.

DEVELOPING its service for the islands of New Britain, New Ireland, and Bougainville, from July 1 Amphi bious Airways is placing a further plane in commission—an Avro Feeder, licensed to carry 16 passengers, with a range of one thousand miles.

It is the stated aim of Amphibious Air ways, although licensed to travel all over Australasia, to service these Islands in particular, with Rabaul as their head quarters. A spokesman for the Company said that if they do make trips to the mainland, it will be on behalf of local people only.

Although Rabaul is the Company’s headquarters, the workshops at present are remaining at Lae; but it is hoped to get a similar shop going in Rabaul.

It is claimed that people on outstations, desirous of travelling by air to and from Rabaul, are thus saved the heavy addi tional cost and the lost time, of hiring a plane from the mainland.

Probably it was the advent of this new air company which assisted the Depart ment of Civil Aviation to make available the airstrip at Namatanai, New Ireland, after certain improvements have been carried out by the local District Office.

This is to be followed by the re-opening of air strips, mostly old Army ones, at Cape Hoskins, Jacquinot Bay, Gloucester, Buka Passage and Buin.

Captain Sir Maxwell Maxwell-Amlerson.

CBE, KC, who was Chief Justice in Fiji, 1929-34, died in Malta on June 9, at the age of 72.