PACIFIC AIRWAYS.
— I ■»■' SOME UNOFFICIAL SURVEYS. ONE ROUTE VIA AUCKLAND. (By Cable.—r*ress Association.—Copyright.) (Received 12 noon.) SYDNEY, this day. At a result of recent activities undertaken unofficially by Mr. David Stead, one of the Commonwealth's representatives at the I'nn-l'acilic Food t'ongress recently held at. Honolulu, plans" arc being made for v preliminary survey of permanent air-lines for the possible establishment of a .-cries of transPacific, commercial air routes. The initial flights will most likely be undertaken by the United states' Army and Navy air forces concurrently with tinvisit next year of the American tleet to Australian waters. It. is expected that several countries in the Pacific will cooperate with the Americans in the scheme. The proposed routes include one from San Francisco to Sydney via Honolulu and .Manilla, and several smaller islands in the intervening gaps; also one from Sydney to Honolulu via Auckland, the Kermadecs, Suva, Samoa the Phoenix tiroup and Palmyra Island' (A. and N.Z. Cable.)
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Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 249, 20 October 1924, Page 5
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