TERMINAL IN N.Z.

Press, Volume C, Issue 29499, 28 April 1961, Page 14

TERMINAL IN N.Z.

Support For Harewood Welcoming the news of ••the first major step towards the maturing of New Zealand's own airline” on the eve of TXA.L's twenty-first birthday. Mr E. G. Beckett, the Canterbury Public Relations Officer, said last evening that it opened the door to increased tourist earnings. The naming of Auckland. •Wellington and Christchurch as points of entry left the selection of a terminal to Qantas, and in this respect there was now no reason why New Zealand should wait until 1965 to be placed on the jet air routes, Mr Beckett said.

Whether Qantas flew pure jets into New Zealand would depend on the standard of airfields offering and whether the Civil Aviation Administration would approve them for use by jets. At Christchurch there was an airport which could be made ready for jets in a minimum time. The Canterbury Public Relations Office offered its

wholehearted support to the City Counc I ’. and any other organisation in an immediate approach to Qantas to use Christchurch. Mr Beckett said.

“It is to be hoped also that the Minister of Civil Aviation 'Mr McAlpine), when he is re-negotiating with the United Kingdom, France and the United States of America, will extend the same freedom of terminal selection.” Mr Beckett added.

Spoons For Quads In token of an "exceptional event” the Wellington Hospital Board will present silver spoons to the mother of the Mason quadruplets this morning. There will be a spoon for each of the baby girls with each child’s name and the birth day—Good Friday. March 31—engraved on them. The superintendent-in-chief of Wellington Hospital (Mr J. H. North) said last night that Mrs C. Mason will go home shortly, but the four babies would stay in hospital for some time.—<P.A.)