AIR SERVICE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 138, 12 June 1936, Page 8

AIR SERVICE.

AUSTRALIA TO N.Z. GERMANS SHOW ENTERPRISE, FORTY PASSENGER SHIPS, The possibility of a German company inaugurating a service between Aus- ' tralia and New Zealand by airships was mentioned to-day by Mr. L. G. Brundafy ' Leipzig Trade Fair Commissioner a 4 Sydney, 011 his arrival by the Mariposa from Los Angeles. 1 Mr. Brundahl, wlio is on hie way back from Germany, said that' he had bee n asked to investigate the possibility 0 f the proposed service, which it was sac. , gested could be l>est carried out with a type of nevr airship which would carry forty passengers and cross the Tasma'n Sea in eighteen hours. On his return to Sydney he intended to take up the matter with both the Commonwealth Government and the New Zealand Gov, ernment. He said that there was - possibility that one of Germany's late«t airships would fly to Sydney on tie occasion of the city's one hundred and fiftieth anniversary. When at Southampton Mr. Brundahl saw Britain's new liner the Queen Manwhich he described as a remarkable monster with beautiful lines. Hj sailed for New York by the Georgic and when two days out in perfect weather they met the French liner Xormandia 011 the opposite course. It was at thai moment that the German airship Hindenburg, on her way to New York, came up - from the east, and swooped low to pass between the two liners. There is mid-ocean, said Mr. Brundahl, was an* illustration of modern travel. Mr. Brundahl said that aviation ij Germany had been developed to an extraordinary extent, and from the bio aerodrome near Berlin aircraft left as regularly as clockwork for all parts of the Continent. Aircraft were akj arriving at all times of the dav and night. Every facility was provided for both passengers and navigation ani flying was regarded as the usual thins for fast transport.