Aylor Plans Children's
p. 111 · Read in the full issue
Cruising in the Pacific
Special For First Flight
LUSTRALIAN parents with vision and money to spare may, in the coming term holidays, send their children on a 12-days air cruise of ew Caledonia, Fiji and other Pacific Islands.
i announcing in March, details :his first air-cruise with Frigate i 111, Sir Gordon Taylor said: om the educational aspect, I that well within the adult lives today’s school boys and girls world is going to look more and ■e to the Pacific region as the r world of the South, and I am ing to give as many young Aus ians as possible a pre-view of world.” ir Gordon has left open at this :e the full itineraries for the r Caledonia and Fiji regions be se, between now and May he ts to look closely into the best bination of educational and day enjoyment. :igate Bird 111 is a Bermuda s flying-boat capable of carry -35 passengers. Cost of this ;icular cruise (with Sir Gordon ommand) is £AI9S for children, 35 for adults. The itinerary is ainly interesting. tie programme now reads as >ws; Depart Sydney 10 am, May arriving at Grafton. NSW. 2 rs later. Lunch at the Crown si, an afternoon car drive, ier and an overnight stop at hotel. In the air again at 8.20 next day, with lunch in flight an arrival at Noumea about 4 where the party will stay at s Vata. Details of the two-day at New Caledonia are still to worked out, but there will be e local flying. igate Bird 111 will take off n at 9 am, May 14, bound for a but with an examination of of Pines, the Loyalties, the awas, and the coast of Viti Levu >ute. A 4 pm arrival is expected jauthala Bay. Plans still have le completed for a 2-day stop e, but at 10 am on May 17 the ig-boat will head for the Lau ads, landing at Nabavatu in aa Balavu, one of the Exploring ;, about noon, to spend four > of local flying, swimming, and .ng in that region, which is one be most beautiful in the Colony, off the beaten track for ists and most residents of the e populated areas of Fiji. 8 am, May 21, Frigate Bird 111 commence the home run with air reconnaissance of Koro, ua Levu, and other islands Kite to Noumea. There, after ther overnight stop at Anse
Vata the big flying-boat will head south-west for the Middleton Reef, and, if weather permits, a brief look at Lord Howe before arriving back on Sydney Harbour about 3.30 pm, May 22, to land, we imagine, cargo of very good publicity for further cruises.