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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 April 1952Vol. XXII, No. 9

Service

p. 17 · Read in the full issue

TOA Withdraws NG Service

IT was formally announced, on April 15, that the service main tained by Trans Oceanic Airways, between Sydney and Port Moresby, by Solent flying-boat, is being with drawn immediately. Increasing costs have made the economic operation of the service impossible. Qantas’

Australia-N. Guinea fares have been raised, to meet rising costs.

Mr. John McWhinney, who was Government Secretary at Norfolk Island for several years, and who subsequently assisted the legal de partment in the New Hebrides, has now settled down in Sydney as a legal practitioner .