Chatham Islands
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w Air Service for Chatham Islands
ZEALAND’S outlying Chat n Islands, in the far South ific, will have a regular air from Christchurch by the this year. was announced by Trans airways Ltd., of Christchurch, i-July. The company has
been licensed to operate a fort nightly or weekly service with Beechcraft planes which are on order from the United States.
The airline distance from Christ church to the new 3,400 ft runway being completed in the Chathams, is about 550 miles, and from Well ington about 470 miles.
In recent years the Chathams have been served by a few summer flying-boat flights by TEAL. These were halted when TEAL disposed
rnvif for all but the AnSf^ Ute s - rvice - Last summer Ansett Airways, of Sydney, made a flymg-boat charter flight from Wellington to the Chathams The new airfield will make it possible for land-planes to maintain con tact.
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[?] This infant ic Loyalty New Caledonia, to disagree t got her first Lepine anti* cine in Noumea The campaign ing very little jp to the end In the first so only five were taken for vaccinations, ber rose to 27 third week of h. New Cale d an outbreak in June; it to die down
ut two other cases were admitted to [?]fter the middle of the month. Three have died during the epidemic.
Several cases have been reported from Tahiti also.
Photo by F. E. Dunn.