French Airline Increases
pp. 116-117 · Read in the full issue
Pacific Services
r[E French Air Service, Trans ports Aeriens (TAD has increased the number of flights between Noumea and!
Wallis Island, via Nadi.
The service was started on March! 3, with flights about every seven Wook-S Now a flight will be made every four or five weeks. The nextl flights are scheduled to leave Noumea on September 7 and Oc tober 5.
The DC3 aircraft used for the service carries passengers and cargo.
TAI expects to have DC7’s opera ting on the Paris-Auckland service later this year. It is not known as yet whether the Darwin stop will, be cut out, with the plane making the Saigon-Brisbane hop direct.
TAI has applied to use Sydney' instead of Brisbane, before making the Noumea hop, but this question has not yet been resolved.
At present TAI may carry passengers between Brisbane anb Noumea, but not from Brisbane to Auckland due to the TEAII monopoly on the trans-Tasman route. fl A barbecue farewell was given br< Mr. and Mrs. F. Gibson, Lae, NGC on June 28, to Mr. and Mrs. Tonij Normoyle, son of Port Moresby 1 well-known Police Commissioner!
Mr. Chris Normoyle, on the occasior< of his departure from Robert Gillespie (NG) Ltd., to join thr Customs Department at Rabaul.
L 5? 6 r> ? nest from Fiji and one rom Rotuma were recently ordained ?nm!n W of M o ala 7 d i by^e J£ e i ro ’ johtan of New Zealand, Archbishop VfcKeefry. They were the Rev.
Father Lui Raco, SM, of Natewa Bay, and the Rev. Aleksio Kitolelei, SM, of Rotuma. Father Kitolelei is the first Rotuman to be ordained to the priesthood.