TROOPS & SUPPLIES
CARRIED BY AIR TRANSPORTS. OPERATIONS IN NEW GUINEA. Qantas Empire Airways air-trooper and air-freighter transports had carried more than 15,000 troops into the line and nearly a million pounds of equipment, supplies and ammunition in one memorable operation in New Guinea, the chairman of directors of Qantas Limited, Sir Fergus McMaster, said at the 23rd annual meeting in Brisbane. Return loadings from battle areas included sick and wounded, prisoners and captured war materials, said Sir Fergus. The company was also one of the organisations which assisted to supply the Allied Army during the I Buna campaign. Mileage flown by Qantas Empire Airways last year had doubled, and the number of passengers quadrupled. Increase in the carriage of freight and air mails was considerable. The staff had increased eightfold, much of the increase being due to the repair and overhaul work undertaken by the company for the Allied Air Forces and Navies in the Australian war theatre. A further large expansion was taking place in the current year.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 December 1943, Page 5
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