TASMAN AIR SERVICE

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 99, 21 January 1936, Page 8

TASMAN AIR SERVICE

Nejv Zealand’s Business

AUSTRALIAN VIEWPOINT

Australian opinion is not in the least antagonistic to the extension of world mail and passenger services to New Zealand, but merely indifferent. New Zealand was expected to arrange its own connection and when it so wished, said Mr. S. E.. Neilson, secretary of the New Zealand Aero Club, who has just returned from a visit to Australia.

The demand for tlie air mail iu Australia has grown remarkably, he said. Between December, 1934, and September, 1935, 20,1341 b. of air mail entered Australia, and 21.8911 b. left it This represented 1,500,000 letters, on all of which air mail fee had been paid. Mr. Nielson said that he hoped the Governments concerned would make an early decision of policy on the question of the Tasman service. The matter should be regarded seriously by the people of New Zealand iu view of PanAmerican Airway’s plans'. Unless the Tasman link were expeditiously established. the only blank in a round-the-world “mail service would be left between New Zealand and Sydney.