New Air Services Expected In The West Pacific
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West Pacific
PLANS were announced during the month for two new air services which will affect the Western Pacific countries—one from
the Netherlands and one fro*< Japan.
KLM, Royal Netherlands Airlines will begin a regular weekly ate service between Sydney and Amr sterdam, in November.
An agreement between Australll and Holland provides for reciprocsc services by Netherlands and Ausi tralian airlines —between Holland and Australia, Australia and Dutch New Guinea, and Dutch Ne’e Guinea and Papua.
The weekly service between Holland and Australia will run vi\ Biak, on the north coast of Dutce.
New Guinea.
KLM ran a well-known servioi between Holland and Australia, vh Batavia, before the war.
A writer in the Sydney Sun o August 26 said that the Japanese are planning a regular air servioi to Indonesia as part of a world aiii way system, once the peace treatb is signed. They hope that this wih bring them within striking distanoi of a service to Australia and, uk timately, reciprocal flying rightr with Australia.
Mr. and Mrs. R. V. Cole and Mist J. E. Cole returned to Fiji in Sen tember from leave spent in the UH