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Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 May 1957Vol. XXVII, No. 10

Plane on Coral Route

p. 53 · Read in the full issue

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[TRANSPORTS Aeriens Inter mtinentaux DC4 is expected in oumea from France at the end iy. will bring Navy personnel for ase at Noumea, but it is ex -1 that it also will make a 7 flight from Noumea via Fiji, rn Samoa and Cook Islands to Bora, French Oceania. •’s activity in the South c may herald some opposition AL operations along the Coral . The great bottle-neck to the : any landplane on the route, course, the fact that there land airport on the island of to serve the capital, Papeete, igers on any land-based air s to Papeete, under present istances, must be ferried from Bora to Papeete either by sea or by ship.