AIR ROUTES

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 142, 13 December 1933, Page 8

AIR ROUTES

PROPOSED SERVICES

TENTATIVE TIME-TABLE

(By Telegraph.—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, December 12. A tentative time-table for the routes to be covered by the proposed national air service which is being inaugurated by Dominion Airways, Limited, has ,been announced by' Mr. Wilfrid Kingsford Smith, brother of Sir Charles. The main route is planned from Auckland to Dunedin. The journey will commence in Auoklan'd in the morning and finish at the southern city in the afternoon. It is proposed to fly four return' trips weekly and later on to increase this to a daily service. The approximate times of departure f»om the principal airports are: Auck« land to New Plymouth, leave 8 a.m.; New Plymouth to Wellington, leave 9.30 a.m., arriving at 11 a.m.; Wellington to Christchurch, leave 1-2.30-' p.m.; Christchurch to Dunedin, leave 2 p.m., arriving 3.45 p.m. There will also be a round route connecting Auckland with the East Coast and finishing through Wellington at Nelson. This service will be flown twice weekly and will be increased if there is a demand for an extension. Towns definitely, included in the timetable, subject to intermediate grounds being suitable, with times, are as follows: Auckland to Hamilton, leave 8 a.m.; Hamilton to Kotorua, leave 8.30 a.m.; Kotorua to Gisborne, leave 9 a.m.; Gisborne to Napier,, leave 10 a.m.; Napier to Wellington, leave 11 a.m., arriving at 12.30 p.m.; Wellington to Nelson, leave 2 p.m., arriving at 2.45 p.m. Conditional places where passengers can be set down or picked up on, this route as required will be Dannevirke and Palmerston North. It is proposed, subject to satisfactory tests, to use four Wackett-Codock monoplanes, of which thrfeo' will be in constant use and one kept in reserve.