Spanish East Indies not materialize.) In a similar vein, to promote innovation and education among the residents of the islands, Governor-General José Basco y Vargas established the Economic Society of the Friends of the Country. For over 256 years, the Spanish East Indies were governed by a governor-captain general, and an audiencia. All economic matters of the Philippines were managed by the Viceroyalty of New Spain, located in Mexico. Because the eastward route was more widely used for military purposes, in addition to commerce that included the Manila-Acapulco galleon trade, most government correspondence went through Mexico, rather than directly to Spain (with the
No. 19 (Netherlands East Indies) Squadron RAAF board. No. 19 (Netherlands East Indies) Squadron RAAF , also known as No. 19 (Netherlands East Indies) Squadron, was a transport and communications unit of the "Militaire Luchtvaart van het Koninklijk Nederlands-Indisch Leger" ("Military Aviation of the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army"; ML-KNIL), formed in Australia during the final stages of World War II. The squadron was formed as a Dutch unit in late 1944 from two transport flights that had previously been based in Brisbane and Melbourne, and which had run supplies to joint Australian-NEI combat squadrons in the Northern Territory and in West Papua. Upon formation the squadron