AIR SERVICES FOR APPROVAL

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 112, 5 February 1935, Page 10

AIR SERVICES FOR APPROVAL

Many Ports to Benefit

TRANSPORT BOARD MEETS TO-DAY

Cook Strait Aspirations

Air services across Cook Strait and perhaps throughout New Zealand will be in operation shortly if the applications before the sitting of the transport Co-ordination Board, which will begin in Wellington this morning are approved. „ . „„ The Union Steam Ship Company has filed an application on behalf of National Airways of New Zealand, Ltd., ■with stops at Palmerston North, Blenheim, and Christchurch, but not at Wellington. The proposed time-table provides for departure from Palmerston North at 8 a.m., and arrival ai Dunedin at 1 p.m. On the northward trip, the departure from Dunedin will be at noon, and the arrival at Palmerston North, 5 pin. Mr. S. E. Nielson is making application for New Zealand Airlines Ltd., a company with headquarters at New Plymouth, for an Auckland-Invercargill service, the machines departing at 9 'a.m. and arriving at their destination at 5.5 p.m. On behalf of Dominion Airways Ltd.. Mr. T. S. Withers, of Auckland, will ask authority for a service from Auckland to Dunedin, via New Plymouth, and another from Auckland to Nelson, via the East Coast, with stops at Rotorua. Gisborne, Hastings, and Wellington. Proposed stops on the flight to Dunedin are:—New Plymouth. Wanganui. Palmerston North, Wellington. Blenheim, Christchurch, Timaru and Dunedin. Cook Strait Service. The Cook Strait service appears to be a popular'one with the proposed operators,-" for, in addition to those who make the water-jump as a part of g more extensive service, the Goodwin Chichester Aviation Company seek to run a Wellington-Nelson service,with a stop at Blenheim, the complete trip being scheduled to take an hour and a quarter.! Three machines of varied type are mentioned as likely to be used, and this is the only instance in which the use of flying boats is pro- ' posed. . ■' ‘ s Cook Strait Airways, Ltd., of Nelson, desires to run a service over the same route, but (extended to Hokitika. Neither the time-table nor the type of aircraft used are specified in the application submitted to the board. Applications for five separate services are made by. New Zealand Airyyays, Ltd., of Dunedin. Among their proposed routes are Auckland-Inver-cargill, Wellington-Hokitika-Cromwell, and Timaru-Cromwell-Dunedin. The company also proposes to run a service between Invercargill and Stewart Island, on Sundays only. Rivalry in the North. New Zealand Airways and Ealcon Airways, Ltd., are rivals for a service between Auckland and Whangarei. New ■Zealand Airways’ schedule provides for the southward flight to be made in the morning and the northward in the Afternoon, whereas Falcon Airways would operate in the reverse. ■ directions. Falcon Airways’ service is tim;’ed to take 45 minutes in each direction, which is a quarter of an hour faster than that of the other company. On the West Coast, Air Travel ((N.Z.), Ltd., whose route has already ■been approved, will come before the board again, and West Coast Airways, Ltd., ask permission for a NelsonOkuru service. Applications for air taxi services are being made by New Zealand Airways, Ltd., and Mr. E. F. Harvey, of Mangere, Air Travel (N.Z.), Ltd., Mr. N. T. Parry,' of Hokitika, and the Mount Cook Tourist Company. Applications for “automatic’’ licenses have been made by each of the nine recognised aero clubs, the Manawatu Aero Club and the Melbourne Centenary Air Race Committee. All have been approved by the New Zealand Aero Club.