Shipping & Airways Information
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Shipping
Aust - West Irian
Karlander New Guinea Line operates cargo service every nine weeks from Sydney to Jayapura.
Details: Karlander (Aust) Pty Ltd, 19-31 Pitt Street, Sydney (27-6301).
SYDNEY - NZ - FIJI/TAHITI - UK Chandris Lines maintains a twice-monthly passenger service from Sydney via NZ, Suva or Papeete.
Details from Chandris Lines, 135 King Street, Sydney (28-2451).
SYDNEY ■ LORD HOWE IS - NORFOLK
Is-New Caledonia
Karlander operates 21-day service from Sydney to Lord Howe and Norfolk Is. details from Karlander (Aust) Pty Ltd, 19-31 Pitt Street, Sydney (27-6301).
Chargeurs Caledoniens operates three-weekly cargo service Sydney-Norfolk Island-Noumea.
Details: Hetherington Kingsbury Pty Ltd, 37-49 Pitt Street, Sydney (27-1671).
SYDNEY ■ NZ - FIJI - HAWAII -
Canada - Us
P and 0 liners call at Auckland, Suva and Honolulu on eastbound and westbound voyages between Sydney and the US; occasional calls at Pago Pago, Tonga, Papeete, Yokohama, Vila, Hong Kong, Honiara.
Details from P & 0 Australia Ltd, 55 Hunter Street, Sydney (2-0317).
SYDNEY - NZ - FIJI - TONGA - VILA ■
Noumea - Samoas - Tahiti
Shaw Savill liners cruise in the Pacific sailing from Australia and New Zealand calling at Suva, Lautoka, Tonga, Vila, Noumea, Pago Pago, Tahiti, Apia, Vavau.
Details: Shaw Savill Line, 8a Castlereagh St, Sydney (28-1481). . Sitmar Cruises operates a South Pacific cruise programme to include most of the above ports plus the Solomons.
Details from Sitmar Line (Australia) Pty Ltd, 22-30 Bridge Street, Sydney (27-4521).
Royal Viking Line, with luxury cruise ships Royal Viking Sea, Star and Sky, cruises the Pacific from Sydney, calling at most of the above ports plus Port Moresby and Rarotonga.
Details from Wilh. Wilhelmsen Agency Pty Ltd, 13-15 Bridge Street, Sydney (2-0517).
Australia - New Caledonia
Sofrana-Unilines operates a fortnightly service from Sydney to Noumea.
Details from Sofrana-Unilines, 37 Pitt Street, Sydney (27-2031).
Australia - New Caledonia -
New Hebrides
Sofrana-Unilines' ships call regularly at Melbourne, Sydney, Noumea, Vila and Santo.
Details from Sofrana-Unilines, 37 Pitt Street, Sydney (27-2031).
Polynesie maintains three-weekly passenger sailings—Sydney, Noumea, Vila and Santo.
Details from Omni Traders & Brokers Pty Limited, 261 George Street, Sydney (241-2872/6).
Australia - Fiji
Sofrana-Unilines operates Sydney-Fiji every 28 days.
Details from Sofrana-Unilines, 37 Pitt Street, Sydney (27-2031).
Nauru Pacific Line operates cargo/passenger service to Fiji and South Pacific ports.
Details from Nauru Pacific Line, 227 Collins Street, Melbourne (654-4977); Interocean Swire, 8 Spring Street, Sydney (20-522); Dalgety Shipping, 291 Elizabeth Street, Brisbane (31-0331).
Karlander (Aust) Pty Ltd operates three weekly cargo services from Sydney for Suva and Lautoka.
Details from Karlander (Aust) Pty Ltd, 19-31 Pitt Street, Sydney (27-6301.; Dalgety Shipping, 461 Bourke St, Melbourne (600731); Burns Philp (SS) Co Ltd, Suva and Lautoka.
Australia - Tahiti
South Pacific United Lines with Lama and Newfoundland maintains a regular service from Sydney to Papeete.
Details from Omni Traders & Brokers Pty Limited, 261 George Street, Sydney (241-2872/6).
Australia - Png - Bsip
Conpac Pacific Express (Burns Philp and AWP Line) operates three-weekly cargo service from Melbourne (direct) Sydney and Brisbane to Port Moresby and Lae. Tenos calls at Brisbane southbound.
Details from Burns Philp and Co Ltd, 7 Bridge Street, Sydney (2-0547).
New Guinea Australia Line's vessels operate from Sydney and Brisbane to Port Moresby, Lae, Rabaul, Kavieng, Honiara, Kieta, Gizo, Madang and Samarai.
Details from Interocean Swire, 8 Spring Street, Sydney (20-522).
New Guinea Express Lines with two ships operates three-weekly Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Port Moresby, Lae, Rabaul.
Details from New Guinea Express Lines, 37 Pitt St, Sydney (241-1396) and 72 Eagle St, Brisbane (21-9333), Westralian Farmers Trans port Pty Ltd, 459 Collins St, Melbourne (35-4366), Breckwoldt's Shipping Agencies in Port Moresby, Lae, Rabaul.
Karlander New Guinea Line's two cargo vessels call at Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Lae, Madang, Wewak, Manus, Kimbe.
Details from Karlander (Aust) Pty Ltd, 19-31 Pitt Street, Sydney (27-6301); Dalgety Shipping, 461 Bourke St, Melbourne (600731).
Australia - Nauru - Marshall
Islands - Geic - Guam
Nauru Pacific Line operates regular six weekly cargo/passenger liner service from Melbourne and Sydney to Nauru, Majuro, Tarawa and Guam.
Details from Nauru Pacific Line, 227 Collins Street, Melbourne (654-4977); Interocean Swire, 8 Spring Street, Sydney (20-522).
Australia - Png - Far East
E. and A. Line passenger ships make monthly round voyages from Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane calling at Port Moresby, Manila, Hong Kong, Keelung, Kobe, Yokohama (Tokyo), and Rabaul.
Details from P & 0 Australia Ltd, 55 Hunter Street, Sydney (2-0317).
FAR EAST ■ FIJI ■ NEW ZEALAND New Zealand Unit Express (CNC, MOL, RIL) operates a three-weekly cargo service from Hong Kong to Lautoka, Suva, NZ ports, Manila, Kaoshiung, Keelung, Hong Kong.
Details from Interocean Swire, 8 Spring Street, Sydney (20-522).
Royal Interocean Lines operates monthly pass enger/cargo service with three ships from NZ to Bangkok, Pt Kelang, Singapore, Djakarta to Fiji (alt. months) and NZ.
Details from Interocean Australia Services, 261 George Street, Sydney (2-0573), Burns Philp (SS) Co Ltd, Suva and Lautoka.
FAR EAST - PNG - BSI - NEW HEBRIDES •
Noumea - Tahiti - Samoa
China Navigation Co's vessels operate a regular cargo service from Hong Kong to Rabaul, Wewak, Madang, Lae, Port Moresby, Honiara, New Hebrides, Noumea, Papeete and Samoa.
Details from Interocean Swire, 8 Spring Street, Sydney (20-522).
North Europe - New Caledonia
Hamburg/Sued operates monthly cargo services from Dunkirk and Le Havre to Noumea, via Panama.
Details from Columbus Overseas Services Pty Ltd, 333 George Street, Sydney (29-2101).
Messageries Maritimes operates five cargo services a month from north and Mediterranean European ports to Papeete and Noumea.
Details from Messageries Maritimes, 332 Pitt Street, Sydney (61-6664).
JAPAN - GUAM - FIJI - SAMOA -
N Caledonia - N Hebrides
Daiwa Line runs a monthly cargo service from Japan via Guam to Suva, Lautoka, Pago Pago, Apia, Vila, Santo and Noumea.
Details from Burns Philp (SS) Co Ltd, Suva.
New Zealand - Cook Is
Lorena, owned by Cook Islands Shipping Co Ltd, operates three-weekly freight service between Auckland and Rarotonga with oc casional calls at Aitutaki and Lyttleton.
Details: Silk and Boyd, Box 131, Rarotonga, or CIS Co, Box 448, Auckland.
TONGA - SAMOA - FIJI - AUSTRALIA Pacific Navigation Co Ltd operates a monthly cargo service between Nukualofa, Apia, Suva and Lautoka to Sydney.
Details from Karlander (Aust) Pty Ltd, 19-31 Pitt St, Sydney (27-6301).
NZ - FIJI TONGA ■ SAMOAS ■
Tahiti
Union Steam Ship Co of New Zealand operates a fully containerised service Auckland, Suva, Pago Pago, Apia and Nukualofa every 14 days.
A service is operated Auckland, Lautoka, Suva, Apia, Nukualofa, Auckland approximately every two weeks.
Papeete, Apia, Nukualofa are serviced at 14 day intervals from Auckland.
A 26-day service is operated from Auckland to Papeete.
A two-weekly service is operated from Auckland to Suva and Lautoka.
Details from any office of the Union Steam Ship Co, Fiji, Tonga, Samoa, Auckland.
Nz ■ Norfolk
USS Co vessels operate 26-day cargo service Auckland, Suva, Norfolk Is, Onehunga.
Details from Union Steam Ship Co of NZ Ltd, PO Box 12, Auckland.
NZ • N CALEDONIA - N HEBRIDES - FIJI - WALLIS IS - NG - BSIP Sofrana Unilines with four ships operates to Vila and Santo; to Honiara and New Guinea; and to Noumea.
Details from Sofrana-Unilines, 42 Customs Street, Auckland (73-279), P.O. Box 3614.
Telex: NZ 2313.
Nz - Fiji - Us
Crusader cargo ships call at Levuka and Honolulu on NZ-US west coast trips and at Suva and/or Lautoka on US-NZ southbound trips.
Details from Blue Star Port Lines (Manage ment) Ltd, P.O. Box 192, Wellington (7-0179).
Nz - Fiji
Fijian Swift operates a regular 18 day service from Auckland to Suva and Lautoka.
Details from Reef Shipping Agencies Ltd, P.O. Box 13-315, Onehunga, NZ. (Phone 663- 918, 663-928).
UK - PANAMA - SAMOA - FIJI The Fiji Direct Service, cargo only, is main tained by Conference vessels, sailing at regular monthly intervals out of London, via Panama, for Apia, Suva and Lautoka.
Details from Burns Philp (SS) Co Ltd, Suva.
UK - PNG - BSIP - GEIC - N HEBRIDES -
N Caledonia
Bank Line operates a monthly direct cargo service from Europe, via the Panama Canal to Papeete, Noumea, major PNG ports and Honiara, occasionally to Tarawa, Vila, Santo, Kieta, Jayapura and Yandina.
Details from Bank Line (A'asia) Pty Ltd, 1 York St, Sydney (27-2041).
Us - Samoa - Australia
Pacific Far East Line operates a three weekly freighter service from Pacific coast ports to Pago Pago, Sydney, Melbourne, Tasmania and Brisbane, returning via Auckland, Pago Pago, to Pacific northwest ports, Vancouver, San Francisco and Los Angeles. (No passengers carried).
Details from PFEL, 50 Young Street, Sydney (27-4272).
US - SYDNEY - GEIC - HONOLULU Columbus Lines operates a three weekly cargo sailing from West Coast, US to Austra lasia, returning via Tarawa, GEIC and Honolulu to Nth America, Details from Columbus Overseas Services Pty Ltd, 333 George Street, Sydney (29-2101).
Us ■ Fiji/Tahiti - Australia
Bank Line Ltd operate regular cargo ser vices from US Gulf ports to Australia and NZ.
Calls at Suva, Lautoka and Papeete on demand.
Details from Bank Line (A/asia) Pty Ltd, 1 York St, Sydney (27-204).
Pacific Far East Line cruise ships operate regularly from San Francisco, Los Angeles, Honolulu, AAoorea, Papeete, Rarotonga, Auck land, Opua, Sydney, and return via Suva, Niuafoou, Pago Pago and Honolulu to San Francisco.
Freight is carried on these passenger liners.
Details from PFEL, 50 Young Street, Sydney (27-4272). 7
Us - Tahiti - Samoa
Pacific Islands Transport operates a five/six weekly cargo service from North American west coast ports to Papeete, Pago Pago, Apia.
Details from Trans-Austral Shipping Pty Ltd, 19 Pitt Street, Sydney (27-2441).
Airways
Trans Pacific Services
SYDNEY - FIJI - TAHITI - MEXICO Qantas, with 7075, operates twice weekly out of Sydney to Mexico City via Nadi, Papeete and Acapulco.
SYDNEY - FIJI - TAHITI - CANADA Qantas, with 7075, operates once weekly out of Sydney.
SYDNEY - FIJI - HAWAII - CANADA CP Air, with DCS, operates twice weekly services out of Sydney.
SYDNEY - NZ - HAWAII - US Air-NZ, with DClO's operates from Sydney to Los Angeles, via Auckland and Honolulu twice weekly.
PanAm operates two 707 freighter services weekly from Sydney to San Francisco via Auckland and Honolulu.
SYDNEY - NZ ■ TAHITI - US Air-NZ, with DClOs, operates from Sydney to Los Angeles, via Auckland and Tahiti twice weekly.
SYDNEY - FIJI - HAWAII - US Qantas operates four times weekly and return between Sydney and San Francisco via Fiji and Honolulu with 74785; 707 s operate three times weekly and return to San Francisco via Honolulu. Additional 707 service Sydney/Nadi Tues and Sat and return.
British Airways with VClOs, operates from Melbourne and Sydney to Los Angeles and return five times a week.
Sydney - Us (Via Noumea, Fiji,
Nz Or Tahiti)
UTA operates out of Sydney on Thu, Sat and Sun, return on Sat and Sun.
SYDNEY - US (via N CAL, FIJI,
Hawaii)
PanAm, with 7475, arrives Sydney from Los Angeles, via Honolulu and Nadi three times weekly and leaves on return flight the same days.
PanAm, with 707 s operates four days a week return trans-Pacific service out of Sydney to Los Angeles, via Noumea and Honolulu.
Mon, Wed, Fri flights to Australia go to Melbourne and return to Sydney the same day.
Melbourne - Fiji - Us
Qantas with 707 s and 747 s operates Mel bourne/San Francisco via Fiji and Honolulu three times weekly.
MELBOURNE - NZ - HAWAII - US Air-NZ, with DClOs, operates weekly from Melbourne to Los Angeles via Auckland and Honolulu and return to Sydney.
BRISBANE - NZ - HAWAII ■ US Air-N2 with DCBs and DClOs operates weekly from Brisbane to Los Angeles via Auckland and Honolulu and return to Sydney.
NZ - FIJI - HAWAII - US Air-NZ, with DClO's, operates weekly from Auckland to Los Angeles, via Fiji and Hawaii and return, NZ - AM SAMOA - TAHITI or
Hawaii - Us
PanAm, with 707 s operates out of Auck land via Tahiti three times weekly, and twice via American Samoa. Out of American Samoa, PanAm operates to the States three times weekly and out of Tahiti to the States four times weekly.
Australia-Far East
Sydney - Png • Far East
Qantas operates a weekly 707 service from Brisbane to Hong Kong and return, and a weekly service from Hong Kong to Port Moresby and return.
Pacific-Far East
Nauru ■ Micronesia - Japan
Air Nauru operates a weekly service Nauru- Ponape-Guam-Okinawa-Kagoshima and return, with a Fokker F2B jet.
Details: Air Nauru, Nauru Government Office, 227 Collins St, Melbourne.
Japan - Tahiti - Peru
Air-France, with 7075, operates twice weekly Tokyo-Lima via Papeete, and return.
Australia-Pacific Islands
(For other schedules touching these islands see trans-Pacific services.)
Melbourne - Noumea - Honiara -
Nauru - Tarawa And Majuro
Air Nauru operates a twice-weekly service, Melbourne-Brisbane-Noumea-Honiara-Nauru and return, using a Fokker F2B jet. Extra services are operated twice weekly to Majuro and
fortnightly to Tarawa and return.
Details: Air Nauru, Nauru Government Office, 227 Collins St, Melbourne.
Brisbane • Fiji
Qantas operates a 707 direct from Brisbane to Fiji on Sat and Fiji to Brisbane on Sun.
Air Pacific with BACI-lls operates weekly from Suva via Nadi, Vila and Honiara to Brisbane on Fridays, returning to Suva on Saturdays via Honiara, Vila and Nadi.
Sydney - Lord Howe Is
Airlines of NSW, with flying-boat, operates temporary return service from Rose Bay, Sydney, to Lord Howe.
Sydney ■ New Caledonia
Qantas and UTA operate Sydney to Noumea Four times weekly and return.
Australia - New Zealand
British Airways with VClOs, operates weekly Brisbane to Auckland and return, and a weekly service Melbourne to Auckland and eturn.
AUSTRALIA - NZ - AM SAMOA -
Hawaii
PanAm, with 7075, operates two flights veekly, one from Sydney and one from Mel »ourne, to Auckland, Pago Pago and Honolulu nd return.
Sydney - Norfolk Is
Qantas, with DC4s, operates three times /eekly. More in holiday periods.
Australia - Png
TAA and Ansett, with 727 s each operate times a week from Brisbane, Sydney or lelbourne to Pt Moresby.
On Tues, Thurs, Fri, TAA Fokkers fly ownsville, Cairns, Port Moresby and return ame day to Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne, Ansett, with Fokker, operates Cairns, Port loresby, Cairns, Townsville, Sun, Wed and nurs.
New Zealand-Pacific Is.
(See also trans-Padfic services.)
Nz - Am Samoa
PanAm, with 7075, operates from Auckland Pago Pago and return twice weekly.
Air-NZ with DCBs operates a direct flight /ice weekly to Pago Pago and return.
Nz - Fiji
Air-NZ operates a daily service to Nadi and turn.
NZ - FIJI - COOK IS - TAHITI Air-NZ DCB leaves Auckland Tuesdays for idi, Rarotonga, Papeete, returning over same ute, arriving Auckland Wednesday.
Nz - Tahiti
UTA, with DCB-62, operates from Auckland d return twice weekly.
Air-NZ, with DCBs, operates twice weekly >m Auckland and return.
Nz - New Caledonia
UTA operates weekly from Noumea on and return on Wed.
Air-NZ, with DCBs, operates from Auckland umea on Sunday and returns the same day.
New Zealand - Cook Is
Air-NZ DCS leaves Auckland Sundays for rotonga, arriving Saturday, Return flight ves Rarotonga Saturday arrives Auckland iday.
Nz - Norfolk Is
*r-UI. with chartered DC4 operates to rfolk Is every Sunday and Thursday. A itas service returns every Saturday and dnesday.
Auckland - Sydney - Singapore
Ur-NZ DC 10 leaves Auckland via Sydney for gapore twice weekly and returns same days.
Auckland - Sydney • Hong Kong
Air-NZ operates to Hong Kong from Auckland via Sydney twice weekly. Return service operates same day via Brisbane.
Nadi - Rarotonga
Air-NZ operates from Nadi to Rarotonga every Wednesday, and returns Tuesday.
Inter - Territory Services
Tahiti - Easter Is - Chile
LAN-Chile, with 7075, operates from Santiago to Papeete Mon and Thurs. Thurs flight calls at Easter Is. Return flights Thurs and Mon with Mon flight via Easter Is.
Fiji • Geic
Air Pacific, with 7485, operates from Suva to Tarawa via Nadi and Funafuti on Wednesdays and alternate Sundays and returns to Suva via Funafuti and Nadi on Thursdays and alternate Mondays.
Geic - Nauru
Air Pacific and Air Nauru each operate fort nightly between Nauru and Tarawa.
Nauru - Marshall Is
Air Nauru makes a twice-weekly flight Nauru- Majuro and return with a Fokker F2B jet.
Details: Air Nauru, 227 Collins St, Melbourne.
Fiji - Western Samoa
Air Pacific, with BAC 1-1 Is, operates one service a week from Suva to Apia, returning the same day. This flight crosses the Inter national dateline.
Polynesian Airlines, with 7485, operates three services a week.
Papua New Guinea - Singapore
Qantas, using 7075, operates once weekly
from Port Moresby to Singapore via Darwin and return.
Western Samoa - Tonga
Polynesian Airlines, with 7485, operates three services weekly from Apia to Tonga.
FIJI - N HEBRIDES - BSIP •
P Moresby - Brisbane
Air Pacific, with BAC 1-1 Is, operates from Suva on Sun, Wed and Fri, via Nadi to Vila and Honiara, the Sunday service extending to Port Moresby, returning Mon, and the Friday service extending to Brisbane, with return Saturday. Flight departs Honiara on Mon, Wed and Sat for Suva.
Fiji - Tonga
Air Pacific with BAC 1-1 Is and 748 s operates from Suva to Nukualofa four times a week.
Saturday service operates via Nadi.
Fiji - Wallis/Futuna
Fiji Air Service operates charter services to Wallis and Futuna Is.
Details: Fiji Air Services, P.O. Box 1259, Suva (22-666).
Hawaii ■ Am Samoa - Tahiti
PanAm, with 7075, operates from Honolulu to Pago Pago three times weekly; to Tahiti direct twice weekly. PanAm, with 707 s operates to San Francisco from Papeete via Honolulu twice weekly; to San Francisco via Pago Pago and Honolulu weekly. Papeete flights operate from San Francisco via Honolulu and Pago Pago weekly and to Papeete from San Francisco via Los Angeles four times weekly.
Hawaii - Micronesia - Okinawa
Continental-Air Micronesia with 727 s operates from Honolulu three times weekly via Johnston, Kwajalein, Majuro, Ponape, Truk, Guam and Saipan; weekly to Okinawa from Guam and Saipan.
New Caledonia • Fiji
UTA operates out of Noumea to Nadi and return twice weekly.
New Caledonia • New Hebrides
UTA, with Caravelles, operates five return services a week, out of Noumea to Vila.
NEW CAL - WALLIS IS ■ NEW CAL UTA, with Caravelles, operates on the first, second and fourth Sat of each month from Noumea.
New Guinea ■ Irian/Jaya
Air Niugini operates DC3s AAadang via Wewak to Jayapura and return Jayapura to Madang alt. Tues.
Png - Solomons
Air Pacific, with BAC 1-11, operates Sundays Honiara to Port Moresby and Mondays Port Moresby to Honiara.
Air Niugini operates to Honiara from Rabaul via Kieta and return on Sat, and from Port Moresby on Thurs, returning Fri. These services are under licence from Qantas.
Tahiti - Us
UTA, with DCIO and DCS operates from Papeete four times weekly.
Pan Am with 7075, operates regular return services to San Francisco, via Los Angeles; to San Francisco, via Honolulu; and to San Francisco, via Pago Pago and Honolulu.
W Samoa - Am Samoa
Polynesian Airlines, with 7485, operates between Apia and Pago Pago 21 times weekly.
Tonga - Niue - W Samoa
Polynesian Airlines with 7485, operates weekly service from Tonga to Apia via Niue.
Tahiti - Cook Is
Air Tahiti with Piper Aztec, operates char ter service from Papeete to Rarotonga.
Details from Air Polynesia, P.O. Box 314, Quai Bir Hakeim, Papeete, and UTA offices.
Internal Services
Fiji
Air Pacific, with HS74Bs, BAC 1-1 Is and Herons operates regular services to Labasa, Taveuni, Nadi, Suva and Savusavu.
Fiji Air Services, with Britten-Norman Islander and Beechcraft Baron aircraft, operates services to Castaway and Plantation village resorts. The Fijian hotel, Korolevu Beach hotel, = lagship Beachcomber hotel, Levuka, Lakeba, /atukoula. Charter flights operate to anywhere n the Pacific.
Details: Fiji Air Services, P.O. Box 1259, >uva (telephone 22-666).
French Polynesia
Air Polynesie, with Fokker F 27 Friendship, 'win Otters and Islanders, operates to lora Bora, Huahine, Moorea, Rangiroa, Raiatea, Aanihi, Takapoto, Hiva Oa, Ua Huka, Maupiti md Tubuai, Rurutu, Details from Air Polynesie, P.O. Box 314, luai Bir Hakeim, Papeete, and UTA offices.
Air Tahiti, with light aircraft operates huttle service from Papeete to Moorea and barter service to Raiatea, Bora Bora, Huahine, langiroa and Manihi.
Guam - Us Trust Territory
Continental-Air Micronesia with 727 s operates
egular service connecting Honolulu, Okinawa nd Guam with Saipan, Rota, Yap, Palau, Truk, onape, Kwajalein, Majuro and Johnston Island.
Details from Air Micronesia, Saipan.
Air Pacific International Inc (not connected 'ith the Fiji-based Air Pacific) with Piper avajo and a deHavilland Heron, operates jgular services linking Guam, Saipan, Tinian, nd Rota, and charter services are available to Iher Trust Territory islands.
Details, Air Pacific International Inc, P.O. ox 7689, Tamuning, Guam, 96911, USA.
Lagoon Aviation Inc with Grumman Wid ens, operate charter services for the Mar lalls district, based on Majuro.
Gilbert And Ellice Islands
Air Pacific, with Herons, operates regular irvices between Tarawa, Butaritari, North KJiteuea and Abemama.
Papua New Guinea
Air Niugini, with Fokkers and DC3s, operates network of services between all major centres Papua New Guinea. These services connect ith Ansett and TAA's 727 Australia-PNG rvices.
DC3 aircraft are available for charter within 'JG.
Aerial Tours operates in Central, Western, jlf and Sepik districts. Aircraft are based : Port Moresby, Kerema, Daru, Kiunga immo, Wewak.
T.A.L. (GV) —Territory Airlines Pty Limited ■ operates scheduled services and charter ghts from Goroka, Kundiawa, Madang, Wewak immo, Mt Hagen, Mendi to Highlands, Sepik d Coastal areas. Talco Territory Travel Ser :e of Papua New Guinea—Twin Otter Tourist ghts throughout Papua New Guinea.
Further details from T.A.L., P.O. Box 108 iroka, Papua New Guinea.
Melanesian Airline Company Pty Limited iacair) operates throughout Papua New Guinea tails: PO Box 556, Lae.
Crowley Airways Pty Ltd operates through t Papua New Guinea. Details: P.O. Box 34 e. Offices also in Rabaul, Kieta, Kavieng' skins. Port Moresby.
Bougainville Air Services operates daily •ouqhout Bougainville. There are nine regular ' ,ic ®s Kieta-Buin. Details: Arawa, Phone 6-159; Buka, Phone 16. Box 298, PO, Kieta.
New Caledonia
Air Caledonie with Twin Otters, and Is iders operates regular services to Houal
lou. Isle of Pines, Isle Ouen, Kone, Koumac, Lifou_, Mare, Noumea, Ouvea Touho, Mueo, Belep, Tiga.
Details from Air Caledonie, Noumea.
New Hebrides
Air Melanesiae with Britten-Norman Islanders and Trislander operates to Santo, Malekula Norsup and Lamap, Aoba (Walaha and Longana), Pentecost (Lonorore), Erromanga, Tongoa, Aneityum, Tanna, Epi, Sola and Vila. Direct connections are available to and from Santo for all international flights arriving in Vila.
Details from Air Melanesiae P.O. Box 72.
Solomon Islands
Solair, with Beech Barons and Islanders operates to Auki, Avu Avu, Babanakira, Bara koma, Bellona Is, Fera Is, Gizo, Honiara, Kira Kira, Marau, Munda, Parasi, Sege, Yandina,
Santa Cruz, Mono, Rennell Is, Choiseul Bay Ballalae and Ring! Cove.
Details from Solomon Islands Airways Ltd Box 23, Honiara, BSIP.
Tonga
Tonga Internal Air Service, with Britten-Norman Islander aircraft, operates from Fua'amotu, (air- Dort for Nukualofa) to Vava'u (daily except Sunday) and Eua (twice daily except Sunday).
Aircraft available for sight-seeing and regional charters.
Details from Tonga Tourist and Development Co, PO Box 91, Nukualofa, Tonga.
Cook Islands
Cook Islands Airways Ltd, with a Britten Norman Islander, operates seven flights a week between Rarotonga and Aitutaki. Service will be extended to Atiu, Mangaia and Mitiaro when airstrips are built. Scenic flights over Rarotonga and its reefs are also available.