SURVEY PROGRESS.
Indian Ocean Flights Reveal Favourable Bases.
FINAL STAGES REACHED
(Received io.:to a.m.) SYDNKY. this chiy. The survey of tin , lagoon at Diego (inn , in. made l>y tin , Indian Ocean survey flying boat Culm, has slmwii it tn In- of great value for a fixing limit base, says a friiin Diegn Carcia. There is also an area suitable for an aerodrome. As the first two Indian Ocean island bases already surveyed are also very suitable it now only remains to make a flight for the inspection of the Seychelles Croup. The Cuba will leave at midnight to-morrow for Mahe.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 140, 16 June 1939, Page 7
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