COAST AIR SERVICE
SATURDAY’S TRIAL FLIGHT Advice was received yesterday afternoon by Nancarrow and Co. Ltd., Greymouth agents for Cook Strait Airways Ltd., that a trial flight from Nelson to Greymouth and Hokitika, in anticipation of the commencing of the West Coast service next week, will he made by one of the Company’s planes next Saturday. The plane will fly direct from Nelson to Hokitika, returning to Greymouth at 2.30 p.m. It is scheduled to leave Greymouth on return to Nelson at 4.30 p.m. and in the interim flights will probably be made over Greymouth.
On receipt of "the advice concerning the trial flight, a special meeting of the Greymouth Aero Club was called and arrangements finalised for the official opening of the Club’s hangar and club rooms also to take place on Saturday afternoon. The ceremony will take place immediately after the arrival of the service plane, and the buildings will then be opened for inspection by the public. An invitation to perform the opening ceremony has been extended to the Prime Minister, Mr. Savage, by the Greyrnouth Borough Council. The Minister of Public Works, Mr. Semple, and the Minister of Defence, Mr. F. Jones, have also been invited to be present.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 16 February 1937, Page 5
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