SOUTH WESTLAND AIR SERVICE

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25179, 9 May 1947, Page 6

SOUTH WESTLAND AIR SERVICE

EFFICIENT AND REGULAR TRANSPORT *4 SEALS SEEN FROM AH » ON BEACH From Our Own Reporter ’I >' JACKSON’S BAY. May t •The efficiency and regularity of th* air service to the southern end of South Westland have been strikingly shown in the last two days when MMt store* and passengers have been in and out in the Fox Moth. Tdjy clouds are hanging low over the but the sun is shining along the and visibility is generally good, fffr ditiohs were much worse when a reporter of “The Pres«*’Mß flown in. The ceiling was about w feet and at times visibility was to under a mile. The pilot (Mr MW Molloy) had to hug the coastline Ind seals playing on the beach nortn’w the Haast river were in plain vieWl Heavy rain did not deter the pBwjj of the district from coming to cdyct their mails at Haast and Okuru dromes. They are so used to the iTV in which the service is maintty* that they were not surprised that W aircraft was able to make its two scheduled mail and passenger flifna yesterday. Thursday is transport day. Frffint on the two trips to-day includes fruit and vegetables for the PuBMC Works men. Most of the store* MtoJ by motor vessel to the sheltered fiprt of Jackson’s Bay. where the disttfflj only permanent Post Office is situated. There is no telephone or teletejjpn line contact with the rest of New »••• land but since 1938 there has beelM radio telegraph link with from which station messages ar* relayed on the ordinary telegraph y*" tem. This is probably the first pW«* message sent from Jackson’s Bay.