New Hebrides

Airline To Get

[?]Ew Planes

New Hebrides Airways, which st one of its two Drover air aft in a fatal crash at Tanna it year, is to get a couple of w ones soon.

Few Hebrides Airways, A

I British company, operates jointly der the name, Air Melanesia, with French company, Hebridair.

A spokesman for Air Melanesia d at the end of February that one over Mark 111 was under option »m the Royal Flying Doctor Ser e, Queensland.

“We expect to put this Drover o operation about the end of >ril,” he said.

“A second Mark 111 Drover should ive in Vila about June or July.

“These rugged aircraft are con ered the most suitable type for ; New Hebrides as to payload, r ety and conditions.

“A new timetable for Air Mela >ia will be effective from about iril 20.”

The spokesman added that bridair did not expect its Dornier to resume services for about four five months. The Dornier was solved in an accident last year.

N archaeological centre is to be k- set up on Easter Island to in itigate and restore more than 250 ne statues and other relics of the >t. Experts from the University Chile will do the work.

Easter Island is still being talked as a possible future stopping place tourists travelling between Aus lia and Chile, via Tahiti. But re have been no further reports ently of plans to build a jet air ip on the island. »AN American World Airways started a direct weekly service »m Auckland to Pago Pago, nerican Samoa, on March 4. The ;ht originates in Sydney.

It is the first direct commercial icdule between New Zealand and moa, and cuts travelling time be sen the two countries by more in two hours. The flight time is w 3 hours 40 minutes.

NEW development on the lighter side of Norfolk affairs is the )rfolk Entertainment Group, which is formed a couple of months ago.

and which plans to put on two good shows a year.

These will be the Pageant of Norfolk which will take place in June during Bounty week, and the Festival of the Pines, scheduled for the Christmas period, at the peak of the tourist season.

Music for the Pageant will be under the direction of Mr. Eric Jupp.

Canadian Pacific Airlines,

which runs a fortnightly return service across the Pacific from Vancouver to Sydney, will change its arrivals at Sydney from Fridays to Sundays.

From May 14 the company’s DCBs

will reach Sydney on Sunday after noons from Vancouver, via Hawaii and Fiji, and leave again for Van couver at 6 p.m. the same day.

The airline’s Australian manager, Mr. Eric Birdsall, said the flights had been re-arranged to attract Australian businessmen. Executives could enjoy a weekend with their family in Sydney, leave at 6 p.m. Sunday night and arrive at Vancouver half an hour later—by courtesy of the Inter national Dateline.