Australian Papers

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[?]baul Wants More Australian Papers

;e availability of Australian newspapers—for which residents of Papua-New Guinea have an biable appetite—came up for dis ion at a recent meeting of the aul Town Advisory Council, was alleged that in the matter lewspapers air-freighted from ralia, Rabaul was victimised, that since air-freighting had nenced five years ago, supplies dwindled from 400 copies per : to 65. was stated that the position otherwise in Lae and Moresby, •e full quotas of newspapers enjoyed—to such a degree in Moresby, that boys “got around ;own on Sundays selling them.” think that the last statement en to contradiction. — Ed. PIM ). was stated that although Lae Port Moresby got newspapers Australia on four or five days week, Rabaul was restricted to Sunday papers. e whole matter of air-freighted papers was brought up at the ing through a letter addressed Labaul’s Magazine Shop, from mblishers of the “Courier Mail,” »ane, in which the newspaper >any informed the shop that ation of air space for news rs had been reduced on Satur nights. istralian newspapers are carried (antas to New Guinea at con m rates —in the case of Sydney at 1 6 per pound instead of 5/3. ;he population of P-NG has n, so has the demand for news rs—and for more and more aft space in which to carry . This is particularly so on the 5 that leaves Sydney on Satur nights and carries the Sunday rs —which are consequently de 'd in Moresby and Lae at the time as suburban Sydney s are receiving their Sunday rs). s Rabaul TAC resolved that: District Commissioner requests agents for Qantas to take up natter of further allocation of i for newspapers to Rabaul.” other motion put to the meet vas: “That in the opinion of Council, the service provided at ul by Qantas to persons book on the Company’s Bird of disc Service is most unsatis ry, causing considerable incon nce, distress and loss of money aembers of the public. The cil utterly deplores that many e fail to obtain seats on air after they have been informed

that seats were booked, and that many are off-loaded at Lae after being informed that their through bookings to Australia were con firmed; and that this resolution be conveyed by letter from the secretary (of the TAG) addressed to the General Manager, Qantas Empire Airways, Sydney.”