The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930

Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 December 1956Vol. XXVII, No. 5

tas 'Operation Student’

p. 145 · Read in the full issue

[?]Ouquet

Is In Full Swing

Stas Empire Airways’

►iggest end-of-year chore was D full operation late November fecember when the company parrying 1,100 school-children to their homes in time for bnas. m boarding schools in Aus- I they were going back to n, India, Pakistan, Burma, [Kong, Manila, New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Fiji, New bnia. and Indonesia, far the largest number, about rent to Papua-New Guinea on teular services and on special I from Sydney and Brisbane.

Itas makes a special feature icing after these young people I range in age from 10 and 18 ng to their overnight stops baking sure that they make ight connections at the right As a correspondent in New ja says: “They haven’t lost a

pet.”

f year, the behind-the-scenes mg went on as usual although p-line schedules were corn ed by the heavy Olympic I traffic that coincided with p the school year, tfeen mid-January and mid ary the process is put into e and Qantas will faithfully back 1,100 students from their [way homes to schools all the Australian Eastern States.