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Pacific Route Chan[?]
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One result of the introdm Qantas Boeing 707 aircraft trans-Pacific service (the ft vice got off from Sydney om and the service will he f\ operated hy September 7) W the abrupt curtailment cc American services on the sam.
PAN AMERICAN, which Super 7 conventional pis craft until it starts i Pacific jet service, has cut vices between Sydney and America from four per WceM per week. Jet training proc for its own air crews is pa= sponsible for cutting back; service; but the bigger ♦ capacity, and the novelty flight now supplied by Qss the rest of the story.
Meanwhile, Samoa has bee: centre of keen competition First came Transocean with its non-scheduled Touri* and a direct link with Hono. wrest some of the traffic fn American which operates vi:i Now Pan American wilt September 30, commence a. scheduled bi-w eek 1 y Ht Tafuna (American Samoa) 1 with Boeing Stratocruisers,, the same time discontinu DC4 service between Nas Tafuna.
On a visit to the South Pacific in July, the Governor-General of New Zealand, Viscou[?] (right), with Lady Cobham, here photographed in Pago Pago, American Samoa, with [?] E. Fitzpatrick, American Samoa Treasurer (left) and Mr. K. Davies, New Zealand T[?] missioner, who is also on a Pacific tour. Lord and Lady Cobham were travelling aboa[?] "Royalist".
Photo: Pan Ameri[?]