TASMAN AIR SERVICES RESUMED WITH END OF STRIKE

Evening Star, Issue 26153, 15 July 1947, Page 4

TASMAN AIR SERVICES RESUMED WITH END OF STRIKE

(P.A.) AUCKLAND, July 14. Air services between Auckland and Sydney will be resumed to-morrow, following the settlement of the strike of 150 employees, of Qantas Empire Airways Ltd., at Rose Bay, Sydney. This has brought to an end a four-day hold-up in flying boat services across the Tasman. No flying boat has arrived at Auckland since Friday. , Two of the largest flying boats of Tasman Empire Airways Ltd., Australia and New Zealand, will be despatched from Mechanics Bay in the morning with full complements of passengers and mail. The passengers for to-morrow’s flying boats were informed by the staff of Tasnym Empire Airways to-night of resumption of the service.

All four aircraft owned by the company are at present based at Auckland, and so no flying boat will leave Rose Bay for Auckland to-morrow. The service will revert to the normal timetable of one flight in each direction daily from Wednesday. An attempt is being made to charter a Skymaster aircraft to overcome the accumulation of bookings in Australia and New Zealand.

' Mails normally carried across the Tasman by the aircraft of Tasman Empire Airways Ltd. were not held .in Auckland in spite of the interruption of the air service. Alternative means of sending them have been found, but there has been no inward airmail from Australia to Auckland since last Fqjday, nor has the'Chief Post Office at Auckland any advice of the resumption of this service.