[?]ternal Air Service

for New Caledonia

fEW Caledonia should shortly

I have its own internal air service

known briefly as TRANSPAC,

d at much greater length and icially, as Societe Caledonienne

Transports Ariens.

Sarly last year we reported that ire were moves afoot in New ledonia for the formation of a al air service. Mr. Sylvestre ;onte, a mine owner and planter, s reported as taking the lead in project. m Avro Anson aircraft was ’chased in Sydney and prepared. ,er it was sold or put aside and jockheed Lodestar was prepared I even painted with the com ty’s colours. Uniforms were chased for the aircrew. But Lodestar continued to sit in a iney hangar. ow another company, headed Monsieur H. Martinet, a well wn Noumea pharmacist, has n formed. This organisation will e a Government subsidy, and Government will carry out mditioning work on war-time trips round New Caledonia for use of the company’s aircraft, ital, which has been contributed Monsieur H. Martinet, is stered as two million francs 14,000). reconditioned de Havilland ide aircraft has been purchased i Aero Services Ltd. of Croydon, land, and will arrive in July, ther in about six months time.

French pilot, Monsieur J. A. irgue, will arrive in Noumea tly. He will also be technical :tor of the company. Monsieur touillaud is named as engineer.

H. Coursin, attached to a mea legal firm, will be opera -3 manager. ans are to operate regular ices from Magenta airfield, mea, to points round New donia and to Lifu Island in Loyalties, where the people pre d an airstrip in anticipation of service early last year.