[?] Many Millionaires,

This Is His Grouch

[?]Ot Enough Planes

E irate resident of Lae, New 3uinea, doesn’t think much he Qantas service since it iged over from DC4s to

;r Constellations on the Syd-

Port Moresby section of the

ce (with a consequent reduc

in planes-per-week). And he ;s to say so in plain words: lAT we have been putting up with is fast giving us ulcers.

Those people who meet the j to collect urgently needed ) such as films, drugs, spare ;, newspapers, and flowers for ings, etc., are constantly being “come back in an hour.” The sometimes extends to the next

One Plane Useless

iwers ordered recently for a ing did not come at all; the ex ition being that they would be accepted at the Australian without a certificate. We en d about this from previous mers for wedding flowers and knew nothing about certi- JS. ost countries require a certi ? of fumigation, or to the effect the consignment is disease hefore they will allow fruit lowers to enter. It would he ual if Papua-New Guinea -s in this regard. — Ed. "PIM”). th the new Constellation ser of four planes a week, the tory, in effect, is getting three ;s, because the one which es here on Monday is useless tr as cargo is concerned. Few le in Australia are going to itch goods or mail on Sunday.

Bad Luck ntas certainly has had bad since the inauguration of the service, and most people are e that certain teething troubles arise, and are conseqently mt and understanding. They , too, that Qantas cannot con :he weather. t —and this is a big but—when Constellation arrived on time, bly for the first time, in Port sby on February 20, and cargo, sngers and mail arrived in Lae nine hours afterwards, even most tolerant were very, very uttles were sent from Lae to up from the Constellation, and i asked “What about the

DC4 ?, it was learned that that machine was out on charter The last bitter pill was the in formation that the DC4 was on charter to the millionaire passeng ers of the visiting Swedish vessel Kungsholm, which was in Port Moresby that day.

It has always been understood that a DC4 would be available to shuttle from Port Moresby to Lae when the Contellation service started, and as the average time taken for the trip is about li hours, this looked like being a good service, as the Contellation was arriving earlier than the old service.

But there is a very big differ ence between li hours and the 9 hours which people waited for mail,

etc. And this time Qantas had no break-down or weather excuses.

Port Moresby was served; the millionaires were served, and who the hell cares about New Guinea anyway? Australia has already given it away to Indonesia!

M. Louis Devambez, Assistant Fisheries Officer for the South Pacific Commission, is making a survey of river systems in Viti Levu, Fiji.

He is working in co-operation with the Government’s Department of Agriculture in an attempt to deter mine whether it will be possible to introduce freshwater gamefish into the Colony.