Pacific Islands Monthly
The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930
Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 May 1971Vol. 42, No. 5

Airstrips in

p. 88 · Read in the full issue

Page 8888

the news

Latest photos of two airstrips in the news—Rarotonga (top) and Norfolk Island.

Rarotonga's jetstrip is concreted and due for completion in 1972, when Air New Zealand will then begin a DCS service, replacing the HS74B it runs at present from Nadi and Pago Pago. Norfolk, with DC4's into Sydney and Auckland, is also looking wistfully into the jet age. The Norfolk Islander reports, somewhat opti mistically, that now Pacific Islands Airways has made a firm commitment for the BACIII 475 jet, it might be interested in including the island in its South Pacific chain of stops. Both photos by A. G.

Shearer.

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