AIR TIME TABLES

Evening Star, Issue 22202, 3 December 1935, Page 14

AIR TIME TABLES

INTERESLAND SERVICES UNION COMPANY’S PROGRAMME [Per United Press Association.] WELLINGTON, December 2. The fares and time-tables for the two commercial air services which will be operating between the North and the South Islands shortly will be considered at a meeting of the Transport Co-ordination Board in Wellington on Friday. The companies have Already received operating licenses, but the operation schedules have to be approved, before flying can begin. This question involves in the case of these two companies the principle of serving Wellington by the co-ordination of the Palmerston North-Dunediu and the Wellington-Nelson-Blenheim services. 'The Union Airways Ltd. proposes the following time-table:— South. —Palmerston North depart 8.30 a.m., Blenheim arrive 9.27 a.m.; depart 9.37 a.m., Christchurch arrive 10.65 a.m.; depart 11.5, Dunedin arrive 12.37 p.m. North.—Dunedin depart 8.15 a.m., Christchurch arrive 9.47 a.m.; depart 9.57 a.m., Blenheim arrive 11.15 a.m.; depart 11.25 a.m., Palmerston North arrive 12.22 p.m. The proposed fares arc :—Palmerston North-Blenheim, £2 ss; BlenheimChristchurch, £2 15s; ChristchurchDunedin, £3 10s. The Cook Strait Airways proposes as follows: Nelson depart 7.30 a.m., Blenheim arrive 8.15; depart 8.20, Wellington arrive 8.50; depart 9.0, Blenheim arrive 9.30; depart 11.30, Wellington arrive 12; depart Is.lo p.m., Nelson arrive 1.10; depart 2, Wellington arrive 3; depart 4.30, Blenheim arrive 5; depart 5.10, Nelson arrive 5.55. The proposed fares are:—

Nelson-Wellington, £2 ss; Welling-ton-Blen:heim, £1 15s; Nelson-Blen-heim, £1 10s. It is not yet known if there will be any opposition to these proposals.