msiders Abandoning

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Still Plans [?]ionolulu Service

RDING to a Honolulu source, th Pacific Air Lines, which for years been trying to get i Honolulu-Papeete flying :vice, is not out of the run 1, although Britain has taken ristmas Island for next year’s i tests. ;mas Island was to have been portant mid-way staging r SPAL. It was within weeks g complete when the UK I its intention of moving in. been hinted that SPAL may >me interim agreement with £ whereby they can use as until next April by which le company could have a Jontellation to put onto the a Sups r-Constellation, [irect from Honolulu to Bora uld be made. There would, *, still be the difficulty of passengers from Bora Bora ete —although if the company itablish the service it would t be in a favourable position he international airport is ar Papeete. This could not three or four years under vourable conditions, and so we know Bora Bora is not d to Super-Constellation 1 Pacific Air Lines came into ;ure in Hawaii when it re applied to the Civil Aero- Board in Washington for a m on the charter flights of ean Airlines of Honolulu, acean was seeking permission AB in September to make irter flights on behalf of Tahiti Air Cruises, an organ beaded by Mr. Richard K. , manager of Halekulani The flights applied for were ; weekly intervals commenc ober 10 from Hilo to Bora using DC4 aircraft. The ■rate per trip was fixed at return, and passengers pay $l,OOO fare to the ;rs. harterers would, in addition, le expense of chartering a Catalina for the Bora Bora -Bora Bora connection. The ean application was sup )y the Honolulu Chamber of :ce, the Hawaii Island ir of Commerce, and the Big service clubs.

msiders Abandoning

Coral Route Service

AN Empire Airways “Coral ite,” from a financial point r, was “bad business,” and

should be abandoned, NZ Minister in Charge of Civil Aviation (Mr.

T. P. Shand), said in the NZ House of Representatives recently.

Speaking during the debate on the Civil Aviation Estimates, he said that the route had lost a lot of money last year, and would lose more this year. TEAL had extended the service to Tahiti in an at tempt to make it pay, but it was still a “very poor risk financially.”

Mr. Shand said the service cost the taxpayer a considerable amount of money although the Island Territories Department had come to rely on the service, which served islands which were New Zealand re sponsibilities.

The Government would have to make up its mind whether it would try to improve the service, and make it pay; or whether it would abandon it.

“But, because of our responsibil ities, a decision to abandon the ser vice cannot be taken lightly,” he said. “However, I still doubt whether the cost of continuing it is worth while.”

Air Service to Christmas Is.

The British military authorities preparing facilities at Christmas Island for nuclear bomb tests next year are now operating a regular weekly air mail service between the island and Honolulu.

The aircraft flies north on Thurs days and departs from Honolulu again the following day. t A mobile clinic in the Sepik Dis trict of NG, recently returned to Wewak after visiting over 2,000 native patients in 28 villages. With Dr. Rolfe and a Nursing Sister, the

clinic traversed mliec troo/'V-iov ous roadl and tracks to reach patients On one occasion durtag the trip, where the road was I quagmire, the clinic had to be hauled out by winch. In the mean time, the natives went to work on the road and when the clinic re turned, the road was in good con dition. t C. Sullivan (Export) Pty. Ltd., will move from their premises, 379 Kent Street, Sydney, to Wales House (formerly Sydney Morning Herald offices), 66 Pitt Street, Sydney, on November 23. The firm had its offces m Kent Street, for more than 20 years.