Nay For Regular

Nauru Clears

Air Services

An Air Navigation Bill, paving

te way for regular air services ) Nauru, was introduced at a leeting of the island’s Legisla ve Council in March by the

'fficial Secretary, Mr. Vizard.

LT present, the only aircraft visit ing Nauru are those on charter ghts—usually to take official >itors or schoolchildren to and from jstralia.

However, the United States Gov ament has recently shown interest establishing an air link between mru and the Marianas District of ? US Trust Territory. ( PIM, Nov,, 131).

Explaining the Air Navigation Bill the Nauru Legco, Mr. Vizard said it before any regular air service to d from the island could be estab )ed, control over the aerodrome d any air service that would operate auld be placed on a proper legal sis.

Control

He said the bill provided for such itrol and incorporated the basic nciples of Australian legislation on ■ subject.

It provided for the establishment an aerodrome and associated ser es and facilities to be under the ieral control and management of Administrator, yir. Vizard said it was extremely ikely that any aircraft operator uld be prepared to fly aircraft ularly to and from Nauru unless sort facilities were of an acceptable idard of safety. He added that the did not provide for any particular e of aircraft to be operated.

SYDNEY surgeon, Mr. N. H.

Morgan, and his wife, have in ted £8,500 in three beach cabins, 1 a house at Korotoga, near the end of Fiji’s “Golden mile”.

Tie manageress in charge of the ject, known as Korotoga Cabins, s in one of the cottages, which is available for letting. cottage has a bed-sitting m, with sleeping accommodation four, a kitchen and bathroom i-toilet.

'here are three double bedrooms

in the house, and a big living room, about 40 ft by 40 ft, plus kitchen, bathroom, toilet and laundry.

The buildings are only 15 ft from the sea, and about three-quarters of a mile from the Reef Lodge Hotel.

Mr. and Mrs. Morgan expect that electricity will be installed within six months.

Each unit is fully self-contained. All a tenant has to provide is food.

The rent for the cabins is £l2/10/a week, and the house is available at £l5/10/-.

Hunts Travel Service is in charge of bookings.

FROM May 6, subject to Govern ment approval, Fiji Airways will have three weekly services between Nadi, Suva and Nukualofa instead of two. The existing services are on Tuesdays and Thursdays; the new service will be on Saturdays.

On Saturdays, the plane will leave Nadi at 0845 and Suva at 1000, arriving in Tonga at 1400. The return flight will begin at 1445, reaching Suva at 1645 and Nadi at 1815.

Pan American Airways From

June 17 will fly through Noumea on Mondays on its trans-Pacific runs and so provide a daily trans-Pacific service in both directions.

The Noumea run will leave Sydney on Monday at 4 p.m., and arrive at Noumea at 7.35 p.m., leave at 8.30 p.m., arrive at Pago Pago at 1.45 a.m. Monday (having crossed the International Dateline), leave at 2.25 a.m. and reach Honolulu at 8.30 a.m.

The return flight will leave Hono lulu on Sunday at 1 a.m., arrive at Pago Pago at 5.10 a.m., leave at 6.10 a.m., arrive at Noumea on Monday at 7.55 a.m., leave at 8.45 a.m. and reach Sydney at 10.45 a.m.

Pan Am from June will operate to the US West Coast from Sydney on Mondays via Noumea and Pago Pago, Tuesdays via Nadi, Wednesdays via Nadi, Thursdays via Auckland, Fri days via Nadi, Saturdays via Auck land and Pago Pago and Sundays via Nadi All flights will go through Hono lulu.

LES PEARSON, one of Fiji’s best known businessmen, was to take over as mine host at one of the colony’s leading resort hotels at the beginning of May.

Mr. Pearson severs a long con nection with Burns Philp (South Sea) Co. Ltd. to take up an appoint ment as sole executive manager of the Reef Lodge Hotel, at Korotoga.

Built four years ago by New Zea land financiers on property purchased from Barry Philp, the hotel has had several managers. Until lately it was administered by Fiji chartered ac countants R. S. Kay and Company, who have now handed control over to a firm of accountants in Christ-

church, NZ. They have employed M Pearson.

Mrs. M. Hardwick, well-known i Fiji’s hotel industry, who has manage the hotel for the past year on beha of the Fiji accounting firm, is t make a world-tour before rejoinir the staff of the Fiji Mocambo Hob from which she was seconded at th request of R. S. Kay & Co.

For the past six and a half yeai Mr. Pearson has been Burns Philp manager at its large Lautoka brand and for several years before was 11 assistant manager at the Suva hea office of the company.

Mary Pearson will join her husban at the Reef Lodge.

Following her marriage she wj with the Fiji Mocambo, and befoi her marriage she worked for mar years with the Northern Hot Limited chain as a receptionist an tours director.

AN indication of the growing in portance of tourism in the Ne l Hebrides was seen in mid-April whe Miss Tessa Franklin, who is i; charge of the Tourist Enquiries Offic set up by the Chamber of Con merce in Vila, left for Seattle t attend a conference of the Pacifi Area Travel Association. Mr. Fieri Bourgeois, of Coral Tours in Vih is also attending the conference.

THE foundation stone of the 20( room hotel to be built a Taharaa, about 2i miles east c Papeete, was laid on April 20 in th presence of about 500 invited guest; The hotel is being built by French-registered company, Societ Hoteliere de Taharaa, of which Mi Joseph M. Long, of San Franciscc is president ( PIM, Mar., p. 135).

THE Fiji Visitors Bureau expecl an increase in travel to Fiji as result of the establishment of a nei

Mr. L. Pearson.

ice in Sydney. The office will be ened shortly.

Tourist inquiries are at present tidied by the Fiji Government Rep icntative’s office in Sydney, which s had such an increase in requests it it became obvious that a special ice was required. Sydney manager 1 be Mr. Russ Gribble (pictured), o has been Fiji Government Printer ce 1960. His first task will be to iduct a market survey.

TVITATIONS to more than 25 prospective contenders among ding air carriers to submit •posals for the operation of com rcial air services in the Trust ritory of Micronesia were sent out April. Advertisements in aviation, le and financial journals will invite other interested parties to make offer for at least five years of /ice. *an American Airways has served Territory since July 1, 1960, and present agreement will expire on member 31, 1967. Because of the ence of local commercial facilities, Trust Territory is contracting for imercial air transport. ‘resent commercial service consists

of a daily DC-4 service, except Sun days, between Guam and Saipan; bi-weekly DC-4 service between Guam, Yap and Koror, Palau; and weekly DC-4 flight service between Guam, Truk, Kwajalein and Majuro, Marshall Islands. Weekly service be tween Truk and Ponape, and Ponape- Kwajalein, is provided by SA-16 amphibian aircraft making connec tions at Truk and Kwajalein with weekly eastbound and westbound

DC-4 flights. The current air service system consists of 2,589 unduplicated route miles and it is expected by the Administration that approximately 30,000 revenue passengers will be served during the current fiscal year.

THE Matson company next year is to re-schedule its ports of call in the South Pacific as a result of increased traffc between Australia and the US.

For the first time the Monterey and Mariposa will each make a call at Melbourne. The Monterey will be the first to call, in September next year, arriving from Auckland and sailing on to Sydney and then Vila, New Hebrides.

Vila has been added to the schedule for the first time, and this port is being visited instead of Noumea.

The Mariposa will visit Melbourne later in that month and from Sydney will sail direct to Suva, missing the Noumea stop again.