On The Job

Goilala Air Service Back

Goilala Air Services —A

,Jf private air company with head quarters at Tapini, Papua, is •iow in operation again after hav :ig had its charter licence and licences of its personnel suspended ;y the Civil Aviation Department ;arly in February.

The suspension came after one :f the company’s Anson aircraft ;ad a forced landing at Embessa in February 4. The pilot lost his r ay between Popondetta and Port lloresby and landed across an old rar-time strip. DCA promptly uspended the licence of the com iany to operate, the licence of the Hot involved and the licence of ne chief pilot of the company who r as not involved in the incident, t is understood that the chief pilot as refused a licence to fly privately.

DCA deliberations on the crash nd the circumstances of the com any lasted from early February ntil late in April, The Managing Director of the )mpany is Dr. A. Caselburg, a re red medical man who had to give p his practice in New South Wales st year due to ill health. During holiday visit to Papua, and par cularly the Tapini area, his ealth improved so much that he id his wdfe decided to make their ime at Goilala. Now the doctor managing Goilala Air Services

and at the same time developing an agricultural property at Tapini.

The Chief-pilot, Mr. E. F. Reid, and his charming young wife have planted 16 acres of coffee at Tapini —which is at an altitude of 3.500 feet, about 65 miles from Moresby, and half-way to Wau, New Guinea.

In connection with their air ser vice venture they hope soon to de velop a tourist centre at Tapini by building small self-contained cabin units. This should be of considerable interest to Port Moresby folk who have few facilities, at present, for escaping from the coastal heat.