TASMAN AIR LINK

Dominion, Volume 30, Issue 260, 30 July 1937, Page 12

TASMAN AIR LINK

Delay Over Question of Control A statement that some definite information about the Tasman air service could be expected in about a month’s time was made yesterday by the Prime Alinister, Rt. Hon. Al. J. Savage. Any service that came to New Zealand, he said, would have to have the approval of the New Zealand Government, and that stage had not been reached yet. Air. Savage said that tiie delay up to the present had been mainly due to the question of the control of the service—who was going to provide it; whether Imperial Airways was going to take through from Australia to New Zealand, or whether some other organisation was going to be developed to bring it front Australia to New Zealand. “There is a committee dealing with that,” he continued, “an'd the details have not been finalised. I think that within a month we will have definite information as to what is going to happen. “Sometimes we get impatient about the matter, and I think there is room for feeling impatient, because it is a long time since we had the conference with the British and Australian representatives about spanning the Tasman and the Pacific.”

Referring to the steps to safeguard British shipping in the Pacific, Mr. Savage said that tentative arrangements had been made for the alloeatlion of the cost of two up-to-date steamers. The details had to lie submitted to the Governments concerned —New Zealand, Australia, Great Britain, and Canada—before finality was reached.