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HR GORDON TAYLOR will not I be alone in the air cruise busi i ness from Sydney to the Islands xt year.
Ansett Airways Pty. Ltd. an- Mnced at Sydney late in August at it plans to send Short Sand igham flying-boats on 10 to 14y Island cruises next winter.
Places mentioned were Tahiti, (i. Tonga, Samoa, Rarotonga, turu, and Norfolk, but some of jse ports do not seem to tally ;h the use of flying boats. Raro iga, Nauru, and Norfolk for ex iple, have no sheltered waters for ing boats, though there are air ips for land-based aircraft, sett’s public relations office had I comment when inquiries were de.
Sailier Ansett Airways, accord |to the Sydney press, had com ined that though they had made [offer for one of the Qantas idringhams recently retired from Sydney-Islands service, the three fraft had been sold for scrap
without tenders being called. wa T s he sa!S ra t P o T V/y was said t 0 be worth £15.000.
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