NEW AIR SERVICE
TO SOUTH WESTLAND
IN OPERATION SHORTLY
(By Telegraph—-Press Association.)
CHRISTCHURCH, October 16,
Tho air service from Hokitika to the isolated districts of South Westland will be in operation bei'oro Christinas. Flight-Lieiitcnant J. C. Mercer, chief pilot of tho Canterbury Aero Club, ono of the promoters, lias resigned from the club, and this will take effect at the end of November. Tho service, which probably will be the first to operate under the new transport legislation, is intended to servo not only tho settlers, who have been so anxious for its establishment that they havo cleared landing grounds at many points, but also tourist traffic, saving two days' travelling on tho return journey between Christehurch and Franz Josef.
A speed model Fox Moth aeroplane has been ordered which carries four passengers and is equipped with a stretcher for ambulaneo cases, of which Lieutenant Mercer has had several while flying the club's Fox Moth on the Coast. The company has also"tendered for the carriage of mails in South Westland, hoping to substitute the aeroplane for the packhorse, the present means of transport. If the tender is successful this will bo one of the very few services in the world on which letters are carried by air without a special surcharge.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 93, 17 October 1934, Page 15
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211NEW AIR SERVICE Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 93, 17 October 1934, Page 15
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