REGULAR AIR SERVICE

Evening Star, Issue 21433, 9 June 1933, Page 11

REGULAR AIR SERVICE

GISBORNE-NAPIER PLAN . [Per United Press Association.] WELLINGTON, June 8. Plans for a regular air service between Napier and .Gisborne are now nearing completion, according to Mr E. A. Robinson, organiser of the venture, who is leaving Wellington for Gisborne to-morrow in the hope of completing negotiations for the formation of a company to inaugurate the service. The syndicate, which intends making application for registration as n company within the next fortnight, proposes to be known as “ Aerial Services Ltd.”

The intention is to operate a service with a Blackburn-Segravo cabin monoplane, seating a pilot and three passengers, and powered by two 120 h.p. inverted Gipsy engines. The machine is to be imported from England, and it is hoped to have the service established in August. . The headquarters of the concern are to be in Gisborne.

The intention is to run one two-way journey in the morning, connecting with the Wellington express. If sufficient traffic is forthcoming an afternoon service will, also be run. Mr Robinson is to be managing director flic chief pilot, who will also be n director, will bo Captain J. StewartDick, Into of the Royal Air Force and a former pilot in the Cairo-Bagdad air mail. As the machine will have a cruising speed of 120'miles an hour, the journey between the two towns will be accomplished in about threequarters of an hour.