INTER-ISLAND AIR CARGOES

Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26515, 1 September 1951, Page 6

INTER-ISLAND AIR CARGOES

BIG TONNAGE BEING HANDLED TWO AIRCRAFT IN USB FOR LONG HOURS (New Zealand Preu AssoeUtU*> WELLINGTON. August With one Bristol Freighter airerg flying a 16-hour day and a DakoU aircraft of the National Airways Corporation in support, the Railway* n* partment’s air freight service «•<* Cook Strait is still carrying big qu» titles of goods. j The temporary loss of a sreooBristol in a landing mishap at ranr paraumu recently has been W? offset by the efforts of the all•freip* company. Straits Air Freight ExP™* The company's remaining Bristol ■ being worked from 6 a.m. to P-IYI. • u . 4k* This has been made possible by »» use of a radio beacon at Wairau Planes can now make night »<**? between Paraparaumu ana wow bourne. The Bristol has been ms»w| two flights each night, to add 24 WR to the amount of cargo being i 1IW " every 24 hours. The Bristol and a Dakota have making daylight trips, and the w® bination of the two aircraft »* “"'J taining a flow of about 400 ton* " goods a week across Cook Strai- : Although this is considerably I than the amount flown during waterfront strike, it represents per cent, increase on cargoes W*®’ the strike. „ . . A Railways Department official to-day: “We are well pleased with ®. position, and are keeping on W the business." ' . . „ The damaged Bristol is bewgTT paired bv Tasman Empire Alr*y* Ltd., at Paraparaumu. A new | reauired for the aircraft, and I being shipped from Britain. ~ I wing was unobtainable in AU«K“ because the Freighter is the latest or ( of Bristol, and spare carts in Austra . ( are for the earlier model. R ' known when the repairs will b* c®" I pleted. _____