More Helicopters for Islands Work
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Islands Work
THE advantages of the helicopter for specific duties in rugged terrain has been demonstrated in Papua, where helicopters have been in use for several years.
In September there were reports that more helicopters will soon be employed in Netherlands New Guinea and New Caledonia.
Royal Dutch Shell has been using Bell-47 helicopters for oil-search work in Netherlands New Guinea for several years, and now plans to bring in two large machines to transport a complete oil drilling rig
to the interior of Salawati Island.
In New Caledonia, the Nickel Company intends to import a Bell for the transport of personnel be tween coastal road and the Yate River hydro-electric scheme, where the big new dam is being erected.
A pilot and engineer are reported to have been engaged in France. t If the number of violent hurri canes in the Northern Hemisphere during the season now ending is any indication of what might be expected in the Southern Hemis phere in the season ahead—and some meteorologists believe that there is a relationship—the South Pacific may be in for a breezy time.