AIR ROUTE OVER PACIFIC

Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22082, 3 May 1937, Page 8

AIR ROUTE OVER PACIFIC

u DETAILED STUDY OF WEATHER * \ N.Z. RADIO OPERATOR ENGAGED•. ; | (pbebs xssocunoir teucgmx.) AUCKLAND, May 1 The last member of the staff 4 Pan-American Airways in Auckkad of the party which came to Net Zealand from the United States kt? last year, Mr W. T. Jarboe, jun,wiß leave for Honolulu by the Monterey to-morrow. The wireless station a Auckland, of which Mr Jarboe ha been in charge, will not be cloai however, as the company has a* gaged a New Zealand operator, Mr K. Edwards, of Wellington, who ml remain at the company’s temporal headquarters. . The New Zealand operator been engaged permanently. duties in the immediate future fi consist solely of handling mete®** logical information, which is W* forwarded to Pago Pago I° r conjunction with reports from ous Pacific islands to enable a? company’s meteorologists to mate I detailed study of south Pacific wW ther. This is a necessary prehmicTO to the inauguration of any vice and is likely to last for sevtw months, L With the return of Mr Jarboe* the company’s headquarters at Ai? meda, California, there wiUbtfWjJ series of conferences on the pm-; ticability of the proposed air saw® to New Zealand, and the tion gathered here and at o ther j£ posed ports of call along/ the row* will be presented by the yanoWJF perts connected with the Mw flight. ■ ' -