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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 March 1954Vol. XXIV, No. 8

Enterprise

p. 128 · Read in the full issue

Luxury Air Cruises To

Islands

Captain P. G. Taylor’s New Enterprise

USING a new Bermuda flying boat, and a crew of six, Captain P. G. Taylor, well-known Aus tralian pioneer airman, proposes to commence, in May. a new kind of tourist service to the Pacific Islands.

The plane will carry 30 passengers on a round trip from Sydney back to Sydney. Each trip will be speci ally organised as a luxury cruise.

The plane may go to any one of the archipelagoes of Indonesia, Philip pines, Hawaii, French Oceania, New Caledonia, Fiji, Tonga, and may visit any island in between those places and Sydney.

Captain Taylor left Sydney early in February for England, to bring out the new flyingboat.

A nursing Sister from the Sacred Heart Mission is at present in charge of the Asiatic Hospital, Rabaul, TNG, which is listed to be renovated and enlarged.

IT Mr. Noel Barry has been appointed a member of Rabaul Town Advisory

Council, replacing Mr. R. Arrow smith, who resigned after trans ferring to his Totaera plantatioi which is outside Rabaul Towi limits. Mr. Barry has been a re sident of Rabaul for many yean and is highly respected by al sections of the community.