PACIFIC AIR SERVICE

Evening Post, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 7, 10 January 1944, Page 3

PACIFIC AIR SERVICE

REPORT OF MATSOW PLANS

(0.C.) SYDNEY, January 7. -•-. The Sydney "Daily Telegraph" publishes a report that the Matson Navigation Company is expected to apply to America for permission to conduct an air service between America and Australia before the end of the war. Matson officials in Sydney would not comment on the report. "The application, which the company will probably submit to the Civil Aeronautics Board in America, provides for an air service over its present shipping route," the "Telegraph" states. "This route does not coincide with existing airlines. Before the war, Pan-American Airways started the Auckland-Noumea air service. Matson has an interest in Pan-American Airways." The "Telegraph" supports its view that early developments by the company may be expected by quoting the "Liverpool (London) Journal of Commerce." which says: "Indication that .the Pacific airline plans of the Matson Company have progressed more than has been generally known is seen in the appointment of Mr. T. A. Schmidt as head of the company's aviation division. Mr. Schmidt has had 15 years' service with American Airlines. He recently resigneti as American Aix'lines co-ordinater of military operations. The company recently bought 45 acres of land at San Francisco Airport, and has- adequate ground facilities, including shops, offices, and a hangar." _________________