MOUNT COOK AIRLINES
Feeder Flights On Coast Mount Cook Airlines will today begin a daily feeder service from the Fox and Franz Josef glaciers to connect with two National Airways Corporation flights to the West Coast which end iat Hokitika. Two Cessna 185 kiplanes would be used, although the number would depend on demand. said a Mount Cook Airlines spokesman yesterday. The N.A.C. flights they will connect with are the service from Christchurch, and the Wellington - Nelson - Westport-Hokitika service.
The new connecting flights will be made until February 3. After that date there will; be no Saturday flights. Yesterday Mount Cook Air-j j lines used its Hawker Sidde-| 'ley 748 on its first daily pas-| senger service from Christ- ■ church to Manapouri. Normally a DC3 has been used for the flight from Queenstown to Manapouri. With the turbo-prop aircraft passengers leave Christchurch at 9.15 a.m. and reach Manapouri, by way of Mount Cook, at 11.35 a.m. The Queenstown-based DC3 will bo used for the daily service to Dunedin.
Station Officer M. H. Burke, of the St Albans Fire Station, has been appointed deputy chief officer of the New Plymouth Fire Brigade.
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Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31867, 20 December 1968, Page 12
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