New Air Schedules N.Z.-Islands Run To Start Next Week
New Zealand National Airways Corpoi’ation announces that, effective firom Sept. 11, its AucklandSuva flying boat service will be operated to a night schedule. It will in consequence be possible to travel from any point on the New Zealand airnetwork to Fiji in less than 24 hours', a departure from Invercargill at 9.35 a m. on a Friday will effect an arrival in Fiji at 7.10 a.m. on Saturday. This early morning arrival will relieve the bottleneck in hotel accommodation at Suva, enabling travellers destined for the north' side of the island to continue the same day. There is adequate first class accommodation beyond Suva.
It is. also announced that the Regional land plane service between Auckland and Rarotonga will operate to new schedules. These provide for (1) a departure from Auckland, Whenuapai each Sunday at 8.15 a.m. for Norfolk Island, arriving back at Whenuapai the same day at 6 p.m., and (2) commencing Sat-. Urday, September 17 and fortnightly thereafter, a Douglas Airliner will depart Whenuapai at 9 a.m.; for Noi'folk Island and Nadi, Fiji, arriving at 8.40 p.m. the same evening. This service, continues on the following Monday /to Suva, Tonga and Western Samoa, and arives at Rarotonga via Aitutaki on the following day. The inward service departs Cook Islands on alternate Wednesdays and Nadi, Fiji the following Saturday at 5 a.m., arriving at Auckland via Norfolk Island at 4.50 p.m. the same day.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 14, Issue 37, 12 September 1949, Page 7
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