Expected
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Big Airline Deals Expected
IT is expected that by the end of March it will be announced that Qantas Empire Airways has absorbed British Commonwealth Pacific Airlines by buying out the shares of the British and New Zea land Governments; and that the Australian and New Zealand Gov ernments have bought out the British Government’s shares in
Teal.
It is believed that QEA will sell the four DC-6 planes, now used by BCPA, to TEAL which will gradu ally replace its present Solent flying boats with these for the trans- Tasman services, and that QEA will use Super-Constellations on the trans-Pacific service. fl The newly-appointed Director of Education of Fiji, Mr. Lewis Jones, arrived in Sydney in early January