DUTCH AIRWAYS

Auckland Star, Volume LXXVI, Issue 251, 23 October 1945, Page 6

DUTCH AIRWAYS

PACIFIC SERVICE AUCKLAND AS TERMINAL According to advice from the headquarters of K.L.1.N.M., the Dutch airways line which was operating i n the Netherlands East Indies until the Japanese over-ran the territory, fly. ing operations ai;e shortly to be resumed, states an information circular issued by the Controller of Civil Aviation, Wellington. The airlines' ambitious plans include a coverage of the Pacific with Auckland as a terminal point. The service outlined by K.L I N M would operate from San Francisco to Batavia and from Batavia over the Australian continent to Auckland. Another line would operate from the Dutch East Indies to India Malaya, China and Japan, with a possible extension to the Russian mainland. The annual aircraft mileage involved is in the vicinity of six million. There is no indication as to whether the required permits have been obtained to operate all the planned services, but M. de Jong general manager of the company has indicated that preparations are now in hand for the first flights to be made from the homeland to Batavia. A visit to New Zealand by the acting-manager for the company in Australia, Mr. S. Nielson, was 'paid in August. Mr. Nielson was formerly a New Plymouth businessman and was noted for his interest in aviation dating back to the occasion when he flew the Tasman with Sir Charles Kingsford Smith.