"RIGHT BEHIND."

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 227, 25 September 1935, Page 8

"RIGHT BEHIND."

NEW AIR SERVICE.

MANUFACTURERS' VIEW.

ASSISTANCE TO BUSINESS. The opinion that the manufacturers of New Zealand would be "riglit behind" the proposed trans-Pacific air service was expressed this morning by Mr. J. A. C. Allum, president of the Auckland Manufacturers' Association. The consequent speeding up of mail would mean a tremendous saving to them, he pointed out, and would mean, too, that the money needed to transact business would be reduced. With the possibility of being able to fill emergency orders at short notice business firms would bo able to carry smaller stocks and thus be more up to date than had been possible in the past. With three days across the Pacific and one across America, it would mean that mail could bo in London within ten days even if the last stage of the trip had to be covered by sea. At present urgent business had to be transacted by cable, and though it was satisfactory up to a point it was not nearly so satisfactory us correspondence giving full details of what was required. The new proposed service would offer the business man two alternative air routes for the carriage of his mail to England, and it would cxpodito business between tho U.S.A., Canada and New Zealand.

Such a service as was proposed would hardly affect the shipping companies, suggested Mr. AHum, as it would provide at present only for the carriage of mail and such passengers as wanted and could afford to travel at extraordinary speed. Business mail was already being to a largo extent carried by air mail. People had gradually come to regard it as being suitable not only for the carriage of urgent mail, but even for less important letters. It should be remembered that until tlie opening of Tmj>erial Airway's service to Australia New Zealand was nearly as far away from England in point of time as it had been 25 vears before.