Officially Approved
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Samoan Airlines Are Officially Approved
From Honolulu Star-Bulletin. .
Washington, April 12.
4PPROVAL of the application of Samoan Airlines Limited, headed bv Lawrence M. Coleman, of Honolulu, to operate a new South Pacific air line was formally an nounced to-day by the Civil Aero nautics Board.
The air line, besides providing regular service between American and W°stern Samoa, is also em powered to operate between any points not in excess of 1,700 miles from Tafuna Airport in American Samoa.
Coleman, who has been fighting six years for the certificate, ex plained that under the authority granted, his line would meet Pan American Airways planes on How land Island (probably means Can ton Is., the international airport 300 miles south of Howland—Ed.
PIM), and also planned to make nights to Fiji, Tonga, Tahiti and Cook Islands.
Coleman said he expects to have the new air line in operation within four months. They will start with two planes which will be converted PBY-s’s which will carry 24 passengers.