TASMAN AIR SERVICE
ALL-WEATHER POSSIBILITIES. [int CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] SYDNEY, August 21. Discussing the forthcoming transTasman flying-boat service ro-day, Mr D. J. Mares, Government meteorologist, said that efficient meteorological facilities would be operating for the inauguration of the service m October. He was convinced that the machines would be able to run to schedule throughout most of the year, as they would be able to fly high enough to miss most bad weather. Mr Mares added that there would bo complete co-ordination between the meteorological stations _ and the Rose Bay terminal base which would provide a.24-hour forecasting service supplementing the radio service while the machines were flying to and from New Zealand.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/GEST19390822.2.31
Bibliographic details
Greymouth Evening Star, 22 August 1939, Page 7
Word Count
113TASMAN AIR SERVICE Greymouth Evening Star, 22 August 1939, Page 7
Using This Item
The Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd is the copyright owner for the Greymouth Evening Star. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.