FIBREGLASS AND RUBBER
Flight Plans For Dolphins (N Z. Press Association) AUCKLAND, Sept. 27. Tasman Airways is getting ready to fly dolphins from Brisbane to Wellington. The Napier City Council is buying two trained dolphins from Coolangatta, in Brisbane, and has asked T.E.A.L. if it can fly them across the Tasman. A T.EJL.L. traffic officer has worked on the problem since June. Now, thanks to the advice of K.L.M., the Royal Dutch airline, one of the most experienced carriers of animals in the world, T.E.A.L. is ready to fly the dolphins. They will travel with an attendant in a compartment of an Electra aircraft. They will be wrapped in wet sheets and put in fibreglass boxes half full of sea water on thick foam rubber mattresses. T.E.A.L. will fly the Napier dolphins to Wellington where they will be transferred to a National Airways plane for the trip to Napier. T.E.A.L. may also be called on to bring two dolphins across the Tasman for a Mount Maunganui aquarium.
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30557, 28 September 1964, Page 11
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