Air Tours of Pacific
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t In a recent address, the Governor of New Caledonia said that 140 Loyalty Islanders were willing to go to the Colony to work; and that 400 Tahitians were also anxious to work there.
IT The Rev. R. P. Garrity and Mrs.
Garrity, of the Melanesian Mission, left Honiara, on October 1, in the MV Tulagi for leave before trans ferring to Mission work in the United Kingdom. Mr. Garrity has worked with the Mission in the Solomons for more than 20 years.
II Dr, F. Hawking, DM, DI MRCP, of the National Institute i Medical Research and a member the Colonial Medical Research Co mittee, will visit Fiji from Decerm 31 to January 19 to discuss filarii control with members of the MedE Department.
Captain Middlemiss, Flight-Captain of Ansett Airways flying-boat division, was in Noumea, New Caledonia, recently talking tourist tours with M. Jean Brock. Ansett expect to run flying-boat cruises to New Zealand this summer, and to the Pacific Islands next winter.
Photo: F. E. Dunn.