Brisbane’s New Flying-Boat

Base

It is believed that the flying boat base on the Brisbane River at Hamilton, will shortly be trans ferred to Redland Bay, some 27 miles from Brisbane.

The present Sydney-Noumea- Suva and Sydney-Noumea-New Hebrides services will call at Red land Bay when the base is ready for operations.

The Sandringham flying-boat service through Brisbane to Fort Moresby will also, it was reported, be diverted to the new base.

Hamilton Reach, the present Brisbane flying-boat base, is not suitable for modern flying boats. A couple of accidents to aircraft landing and taking-off have already occurred in recent years.

The Kokopo Club, New Britain, held its annual Ball on December 26.

Sub-Inspector P. A. Broman of police headquarters at Port Mores by, will attend a forensic science course at an English police-train ing centre in Nottingham shortly.

He will do the course during part of a recreation leave trip to Britain and Sweden, and is already on his way overseas. His wife is Swedish, and preceded him on the holiday trip. She arrived at her

homeland a short while ago and since then has presented the Sub- Inspector with a small daughter.

Prince Tuipelehake, younger son of Queen Salote of Tonga, with his wife, Princess Meleanite, paid an unofficial holiday visit to Sydney in January. The Prince and his wife were educated at Methodist colleges in Sydney.