Rela Pass
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A Rush For Rela Pass
Port Moresby’s bi-week\ newspaper “South Pacific Pos\ caused something of a sensatia among local tourists recently.
The paper accepted and pul lished a classified advertise ment offering seats in a charU aircraft which would be flyir.
“from Port Moresby to Re, Pass” and back.
A Department of Civil Avit tion telephone number Wi quoted for inquiries. Despi the fact that no one could ha\ had much idea of where Re Pass was situated, the DC phone ran hot all day wii people wanting to make tl flight.
By the middle of the afte noon nearly 50 inquiries ht been received, and the leger seemed to have arisen that Re Pass was somewhere in Nethe. lands New Guinea.
Then the truth came ot Rela Pass is a mythical hov of man-eating bears and sava> bandits, and the graveyard scores of missing aircraft and it is featured largely in t\ comic strip section of t\ “South Pacific Post” itself.
Said a DC A spokesman t\ next day. “From what we ct work out the whole thing w. ; a joke which some one play ' on one of our staff member.