PACIFIC AIR ROUTE SURVE.

Evening Star, Issue 22638, 3 May 1937, Page 15

PACIFIC AIR ROUTE SURVE.

LAST OF PAN-AMERICAN EXECUTIVES LEAVES IP£K United Press Association.] AUCKLAND, May 2. The last member of the staff of Pan-American Airways in Auckland, the party which came to New Zealand from the United States late last year, Mr W. T. Jarboe, jun., will leave for Honolulu by the Monterey to-morrow. The radio station in Auckland, of which Mr Jarboe has been in charge, will not be closed, however, as the company has engaged a New Zealand operator, Mr K. Edwards, of Wellington, who will remain at the company’s temporary headquarters. The New Zealand operator has been engaged permanently. His duties in the immediate future will consist solely of handling meteorological information, which is being forwarded to Pago Pago for use in conjunction with reports from various Pacific Islands to enable the company’s meteorologists to make a detailed study of the weather in tfie South Pacific. This is a necessary preliminary to inaugurating any air service and is likely to extend over several months. With the return of Mr Jarboe to the company's operation headquarters at Alameda, California, there will begin a series of conferences concerning the practicability of the proposed air aervjce to New Zealand and a study of the information gathered here and at pther proposed ports of call along the route by the various experts connected with the survey flight.