PROGRESS MADE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXX, Issue 165, 15 July 1939, Page 11

PROGRESS MADE.

PACIFIC AIR BASES. PAN-AMERICAN ACTIVITY. CALL AT SUVA POSSIBLE. I —— — KsHI.-nl progreM in air b nse ,„-,.. parmion ..|..n R the , lew Honolulu-Auek land nniln | ias |, mi mj|(U , by constnu . ti..n H l -Mil's of l\,n-.\n,cric»n Airway. ■rrnMiiiK In the latent news received hi Aurkhml. LHlldillg faciHti)%H J building nt Loth Canton Islnnd an 1 Xoumc.i «h C.1Nh.1,, ftrc at % n J .dv.in.-..l Mago. ~r |.n.,mniti,,n, and radi.. tr«n<n,, t .,Ms Ht both plHcos are now , OpiT.lt lull. l>-i-i..|i <.M (1, (! ,l,, te ~f fl|e firs) . fl ho*<"»-r. iiiii.t await the outi-ome of ««,: eiilpr.it 1,.11 u| U( .|, u , IOW , |pin , pertain iiM|ii>rtiiiit H-poeta of one „„•• J!" ,1 "'' ,l, " ,'"" u '- The New X.-a 1',,..! • ■■■"'■'■""'■•»t him niailo a proposal thllt in-trnil ot ll.viny direct from Canton to NouiinM. .1 distance of nl>,,nt. isno nidimm mil.-, 1],,. CliiipfrH sh "" 1(l - if I" , '"- linilil.'. iiiaki. Immu on intermediatu port >ln '' '- """i- , (liittunra out of th,< tlin-i-l Inn. l.rtu«.<.,i Caritoi, „,„! \,, U m«.,. Mini .1 '"II tlu-ie would increiM«j tht.liiv- - mil l>v nliuiit UN) miles. It is (.nun. lino inilcH from Canton to Siiv* ami Min from .Suva to Noumea. Con-hiili-iiiiioii h now hoing given, it is Uinlrr-iiMid, to vtiriotie aspects of this I'Vi'in Hmmoliilii. whore the South I'"" 1 " '■ '' "iMiirln-M off the CaliforniaOriclil run. the Clippers will make thoir lirnt oyernijtlil stop (l t. Canton Islan.l, ii|i|irii\iniiiU'ly limi) miles din taut. After r>lM)O tons of oi|uipuii'iil . 111 cI material for workshops, stores, II hotel, dorks 11 n<l radio and nieteorolojrinil -I a I ions, the eonipany's .ship Nlll ih lliniMi left the island on June It. when I ln< ciinstnietioii of the luisiHii- well under way. < >lu- of the largest huildinys was up and the dock was projtrw«i«injr. The power plant and radio U|i|iHl'atlM ucre nlso in operation. Heads of coral, protruding from the bottom of the \->is wi'io bcina lilastcd out. At Noumea, whence the living Inrn's will I urn towards tho soutll-cast for the. Hnnl I Hill miles' hop to Auckland, gmtii |iroyri-s has similarly been made. I'hu Mte of the U.-e. is 011 t4i« island of No;i, acint.- the hay from the town of Noumea. The Hl'ea which is being used l>\' the ciinpany is part of an old penal settlement,