AIR SERVICES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 299, 18 December 1935, Page 17

AIR SERVICES.

TIME-TABLES AND FARES. TRIPS ACROSS COOK STRAIT. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Tuesday. The time-table for Cook Strait Airways on its Wellington-Blenheim-Nel-son service is fixed in a reserved decision of the Transport Co-ordination Board. The board has had to rearrange the schedule so that it would dove-tail with that of Union Airways on the Palmerston North-Dunedin run at Blenheim, enabling Wellington to bo served through Blenheim.

The time-table approved by the board is: Nelson, depart 7.4 ii a.m.; Wellington, arrive 8.45, depart 9.0; Blenheim, arrive 0.30, depart 0.40; Wellington, arrive 10.10, depart 10.30; Nelson, arrive 11.20, depart 1.45; Blenheim, arrive 2.30, depart 2.40; Wellington, arrive 3.10, depart 4.30; Blenheim, arrive 5.0, depart 5.10; Nelson, arrive 5.55.

The time-table of Union Airways provides that the machine will leave Palmerston North on the southward flight at 8.30 a.m., arriving at Blenheim at 9.27. Passengers will then be able to transfer to the Cook Strait Airways machine, leaving Blenheim at 9.40 for Wellington.

On the northward flight the Union Airways aeroplane will leave Dunedin at 11.30 a.m. and will arrive at Blenheim at 2.30 p.m. South Island passengers for Wellington will then transfer to the Cook Strait Airways aeroplane, leaving Blenheim at 2.40.

The ? fares fixed by the board in another decision are: Nelson to Wellington, £2 5/; Wellington to Blenheim, £1 5/; Nelson to Blenheim, £1 10/. The Union Airways fares are: Palmerston North to Blenheim, £2 5/; Blenheim to Christchurcli, £2 15/; Christchurch to Dunedin, £3 10/.

These fares and time-tables will be in force until the first meeting of the board in February, when the board will sit again to review the matter.