LINKS BY AIR

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22242, 30 January 1947, Page 3

LINKS BY AIR

SOUTH ISLAND CLAIMS extension of services TASMAN TERMINAL (P A.) CHRISTCHURCH, Jan. 30. The National Airways Corporation and the Prime Minister will be approached by the South Island Local Bodies' Association to ask about the future of South Island air services and also to submit projects which are considered most urgently needed. A deputation will first urge an extension of the trunk service from Auckland to Invercargill. Then it. will recommend an early inauguration of feeder services from such towns as Timaru and Oamaru and from centres of central Otago, and the inclusion later of principal tourist resorts. Discussions will also be held about a South Island terminal for trans-Tasman aircraft. . Advice bad been received from the corporation that it could not receive a deputation in December, but that if a written statement of the association’s desires could be supplied, a meeting might be arranged later. Opinions of various South Island districts were received at a meeting of the executive of the association. Representatives of the Nelson City Council and the Nelson Progress League outlined services given there, but asked for better machines on the Cook Strait run, preferably with two pilots. For the Blenheim Borough Council it was pointed out that its area recorded the greatest number of hours suitable for Hying and, therefore, such a safe haven should be a pivotal point in internal services. , , , , . , Mr H. S Feast, town clerk of Christchurch said that in discussing Tasman terminals it must be remembered that it had not been finally determined whether dying boats or land planes would be used.