Micronesian Air Service
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IHREE SA-16 Grumman Alba tross aircraft have recently been t into operation in the American cronesia inter-island service. iey replace three Catalinas which ve maintained communications ice the war. rhe Grummans have been nipped to meet the Civil Aero utics Administration’s rigid safety
requirements for civil aircraft.
Owned by the US Department of the Interior, they will be operated, as before, by Transocean Airlines.
U Mr. Vercoe Cook returned to Min laton, South Australia, recently on leave after three years’ service in New Guinea as an agricultural missionary. Mr. Cook founded the Denis Taylor Farm School near Mount Lamington after the 1952 eruption.
II Colonel A. Hurnu, chairman of the Colombo Port Commission, and Colonel C. L. Damen, engineer on the staff of the Ministry of Trans port, left Honiara on November 16.
They had spent three weeks study ing port conditions with a view to advising on the installation of im proved harbour facilities at Honiara.
U Mrs. Michael Slade, of Sydney, arrived in Fiji in November to visit ber daughter, Mrs. V. Jenkins, of Wainikoro, Labasa.