WELLINGTON SILENT

Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 14, 16 July 1936, Page 8

WELLINGTON SILENT

<To the Editor.)

Sir,—Auckland may lay claim to possessing the largest population of any area in New Zealand, but the Auckland outlook is not wide. The latest proposal of Union Airways is a case in point. That company comes forward with a perfectly comprehensible proposal for an air service between Wellington and Auckland, via Palmerston North and New Plymouth. The northern chamber of commerce sits in judgment on this proposal, and I finds it quite all right, except the call at Wellington. The chamber says, in effect, "if Wellington has any requirements in the proposed service let it be served by feeder aeroplanes from Blenheim or Palmerston North." But the real directing and natural centre is Wellington, just as it is the natural "jumping-off" place between the two islands. The Auckland chamber's proposal would sidetrack Wellington in a [very important transport service. Wellingtonians should show that it cannot and will not be done. The "red herring" of the alleged unsuitability of Rongotai has been dragged across? The Union Airways must consider Rongotai suitable for the proposed service. I Would they have made the proposal if Rongotai Aerodrome was unsuitable? Wellington should wake up and see that the proposed service is established.—l am, etc.,

G. KING.