TASMAN AIR MAIL SERVICE

Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22415, 31 May 1938, Page 9

TASMAN AIR MAIL SERVICE

DIFFICULTY RAISED BY NEW ZEALAND AUSTRALIAN MINISTER’S ALLEGATION REPLY TO MR SAVAGE’S J STATEMENT (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT.) (Received May 30, 2 p.m.) SYDNEY, May 30. The Federal Minister for Defence (Mr H. V. Thorby) stated that the attitude of New Zealand to the proposed Tasman air-mail service had* made further negotiations with the British Government necessary. The service would probably not begin until the end of the year. Mr Thorby was replying to a denial by the Prime Minister of New Zealand (Mr Savage) that the New Zealand Government had raised difficulties about the proposed Tasman service. He said that the New Zealand Government had raised certain points that did not come within the scope of the agreement reached at the conference held in Wellington last year. “I am not able to disclose what those points are, but the position now is not the same as it was when the conference took place in Wellington,” declared Mr Thorby. Mr Thorby added that the New Zealand Government had asked that the conference, which he had announced some weeks agb would be held in Sydney to discuss details of the service, should be held in New Zealand. The Federal Ministry believed that the conference should be held here, as the representatives of both the Australian and British interests were in Sydney, and it would be more convenient for them to meet here than in New Zealand. No date had yet been fixed for this conference.