The Auckland Star: WITH WHICH ARE INCORPORATED The Evening News, Morning News, The Echo and The Sun. MONDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1935. AUCKLAND'S GREAT FUTURE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 249, 21 October 1935, Page 6

The Auckland Star: WITH WHICH ARE INCORPORATED The Evening News, Morning News, The Echo and The Sun.

MONDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1935. AUCKLAND'S GREAT FUTURE.

For the cause that lacks assistance, For the wrong that needs resistance, For the future in the distance, And the good that toe own do.

In .less than tAvo years' time Auckland business men will be opening their air mails from London almost as soon as business men in Sydney. That is the promise held out by the revised and greatly improved plans for the Tasman air service "which is scheduled for 1937. A service twiee weekly in each direction is promised, connecting wfth a twice weekly service in each direction between Australia and England, which in turn will connect with the established Imperial Airways service from Cairo to Capetown and the new service, which is being started this week, between Singapore and Hongkong. Considered as a unit this great network forged by Imperial Airways —which with its railway alliances in Britain forms one of the world's largest and most important transport undertakings—will be unparalleled even by the Pan-American system when its Pacific route is established. To equal the Imperial Airways system, when the Tasman service is in operation, one would have to add the American Transcontinental line to PanAmerica, and even then, in point of mileage, continents served and territory drawn upon, the combined systems would yet not equal the Imperial Airways route which, starting from.the Empire's .capital,.will have terminals in Capetown, Auckland and Hongkong. The announcement of the Tasman air service plans has an even more. important bearing on Auckland's future , than the fact that this city is to be the terminus' of the j England-India-Australia-New Zealand route would suggest. It is certain that in the negotiations which are in progress between the New Zealand Government (in consultation with the British Government) and the PanAmerican Airways, Auckland's position has been kept in view as the future meeting-place of two great air routes which, starting in opposite hemispheres, 2000 miles apart, will each cover thousands of miles to junction in NeAV Zealand. What this will mean to the future of Auckland needs little emphasis. As power moves more and more from land arid sea to the air, Auckland seems destined, as the meeting point of the world's two greatest air routes, to become one of the world's majoj , airports. And in the years to come air supremacy will more and more go hand in hand with commercial importance.