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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 July 1952Vol. XXII, No. 12

Cook Is. Service

p. 60 · Read in the full issue

Air Tahiti Discontinues

IT was reported from Papeete in late June that Air Tahiti which, for the past two years, has been mamtaining a monthly service be tween Papeete and Aitutaki, Cook Islands, to connect with the NAC service from New Zealand, has dis continued the service, due to the commencement of the TEAL fort nightly service through to Papeete from Auckland.

Air Tahiti will continue to fly

charter-flights and unscheduled fights with its amphibian aircraft to all parts of French Oceania.

There are about 10,000 European residents of Papau-New Guinea— and the same number of radio re ceivers. This is believed to be something of a world’s record.

Mr. Harold I. Dowrick formerly on the staff of the Te Araroa District High School, NZ, has been appointed vice-principal of Samoa College, Apia, W. Samoa.