LICENCE GRANTED

Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 32, 7 February 1935, Page 19

LICENCE GRANTED

WEST;COAST;AIR SERVICE

The activities of Air Travel (N.Z.), Ltd., a company that has been carrying passengers • and mails on the West Coast between Inchbonnie, Hokitika, and Okuru for some time, are to be continued; the Trarsport Co-ordina-tion Board decided yesterday to grant the commercial licence applied for. The company also asked for an airtaxi licence. A route licence was granted previously. The application was heard by Sir Stephen Allen (chairman) and Messrs. H. B. S. Johnstone and Lisle Alderton. < Mr. Roy Twyneham (Chnstchurch) appeared in support of the application. Flight-Lieutenant J. C. Mercer gave evidence regarding the flying he had been doing for the Company over the route granted. The company was the only one in the British Empire that was carrying all mails. In reply to Mr/J. P. Ward, he said all the landing grounds used on the West Coast had been registered. Mr. Ward, on behalf of West Coast Airways, asked for an adjournment of the application of that company for a licence between Nelson and Okura, as bis principal was ill. He asked the ' board if it would reserve for his client the right to claim, a licence When^more! work than Air Travel could do was I , available. Mr. Twyneham suggested that the application should be adjourned sine die > without prejudice. • i The chairman said that appeared to Ibe all that could be done, and the adjournment was granted. I The difficulty about granting airi taxi licences was the question of, fares, I Sir Stephen said, when, the board re- | verted to the application by Air Travel I (N- z -i> Ltd. A licence of some sort wouia be granted, but as it, was the first case of its kind the -board would give its decision in-writing.; - -