Qantas Makes Statement

A statement was made by the Chief Executive and General Man ager of Qantas (Mr. C. O. Turner), on July 10, as follows: 1. It is very costly to carry news papers by air, but if it is commerci ally possible to carry more papers into Rabaul we will do so. We have several times reviewed this problem and will again do so, right away.

We point out that we allocate space for newspapers on a bulk loading basis and the newspaper companies themselves separately allot propor tions of the load to individual destinations. 2. We have experienced the greatest difficulty in maintaining an effective reservations system in the area due to inadequate communi cations between Port Moresby, Lae and Rabaul. We also loss a lot of money through passengers making firm bookings and then failing to turn up to make their flight. Again, we are investigating this point and win to do the best we can to maintain and improve our ser vices to Rabaul.