TASMAN AIR SERVICE.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 206, 13 June 1936, Page 5

TASMAN AIR SERVICE.

—-—-—-——-+-—-"',__n NO GERMAN PLANSI MADE. DENIAL, OF A REPORT. (Unlted Press Association—Copyright.) (Received This Day, 11.45 a.m.) BERLINzI Jlllle 12.

Questioned concerning Mr Brundahl’s hint, in an interview in Auckland, New Zealand, regarding an Australian and New Zealand airship service, a high official of the Zeppelin Company stated that this was his first intimation of the matter. He added that such a; plan would be practicable only in the far distant future because Germany did not possess the necessary airships. Moreover, if one were ordered, there would not at present he the means of building it, because the workshops were fully engaged in the construction of the L‘ZLSO, for the North or South Atlantic route.

Not-hinrgris known of the» possibility of an airship flying to Sydney on that city’s 150th anniversary.

THE INTERVIEW AT AUCKLAND.

AUCKLAND", June 12.

The possibility of a German company inaugurating an airship service between Australia and New Zealand was mentioned by Mr L. G. Brundahl, who is returning to Sydney by the Mariposa from Leipzig. He had been. ask—ed to investigate the project for a, line of airships which would each carry 40 passengers and cross the Tasman Sea, in 18 hours. On his return. to Sydney he intended to take up the question with the Commonwealth and New Zealand Governments. It was possible that one of Germany’s latest airships would fly to Sydney on the occasion of the city’s 150th anniversary.