NEW GUINEA-AUSTRALIA AIR SERVICE
DIM TO GARRY FIRST MAIL [Tin Ukit*d Press Assoeii-now.J WELLINGTON, May 17. “ New Guinea is a tremendously important place, in view of the gold discovered there,” said Air C. P. Ulm in an interview. “ I believe its natural route is that along which the air service should be developed, and 1 am forming a company for that purpose and also to develop an Australia-New Zealand air mail service. As there has been no direct and organised air mail or commercial flight between Australia and New Guinea, I made application to the Postmaster-General in Australia to carry tile first official air mail to Papua and New Guinea, and I have now received official advice that my proposal has been accepted by the Government. Therefore, my flight will take place. 'The personnel on the New Guinea flight will he Alcssrs Allen, Boulton, and myself.”
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Evening Star, Issue 21723, 18 May 1934, Page 4
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