Internal Air Service
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For New Caledonia
Mr. Sylvestre Leconte, Des
cribed by Sydney newspapers as a rich mine-owner and planter from Noumea, was in Syd ney in mid-January seeking the purchase of a 12-passenger Avro Anson, with which he proposed to establish an airways service within New Caledonia.
He said that the new service would use the various district air fields built by the Americans in New Caledonia during the war, and that he anticipated the plan would be financially successful because “most of the passengers will be natives and they have plenty of money these days.”
He was seeking an Australian pilot.
("Editors’ Mailbag” appears this issue on page 141)