Noumea Bewails
p. 17 · Read in the full issue
Loss
Of Qantas Service
Noumea. May 30.
THE cessation of the Qantas flyingboat service, Sydney- Noumea-Suva, leaves New Cale donia with only the weekly flying boat Sydney-Noumea-New Hebrides, and Air France’s monthly service by Constellation from Paris, via Saigon and Brisbane.
Qantas’s good service always has been greatly appreciated by people here, and we especially liked the Noumea-Suva link, which allowed so many folk to go to France via the Trans-Pacific airways, which they joined in Fiji. It is regretted that Qantas could not put in a land plane to maintain this link.
We still have the New Hebrides service, of course—but it looks as if people who wish to go this way to Sydney will have to fight for seats.
Cutting out Suva, and reducing the Sydney-Noumea service is de finitely a retrograde step for New Caledonia.
. Editorial Note: At June 7
it was not certain that the Sydney- Noumea-Suva service would be cut out. The matter was then in the
hands of the Australian Department of Civil Aviation. We understand that if this Dept, decides that the service should be retained, then Qantas will continue it. (See articles also on pages 43 and 153).