TASMAN AIR MAIL

Grey River Argus, 5 May 1936, Page 6

TASMAN AIR MAIL

NEXT YEAR. GIANT MACIITNKS EXPECTED. (Per Press Association.) THE HERMJTAGE, May 3. Giant-' fiy’iig boats each wc'ghing 171 tons, ar,?* at present being constructed in England for the Tasman air mail service, witch ts likely to '•ommence next. year. 'Phis statement \\ius made to-day by Air D, Barnes, M.P. for WaNaki.’ These machines will tly from Australia to New Zealand and return twice weekly. I[ is expected that I'}’ 1937 it will be poss’ble to do the run from London to Auckland 'in seven and a half days. “The prupos-.>]~ for the Tasman air service have broken down in the ‘meantime, bin 'negotiations are expected to be completed within the next, few months” he su'd. ‘‘We are looking forward t'o the time in 19.17 when the run from London to Auckland will lie done in seven and a hnlf’davs.” Mr Barnes 'nsists that when the service does commence, it will be cun: rollo/’d by the Governmen'ts wh’ch are directly interested — the New Zealand Government and the. Governizent of the Commonwealth of Australia.

“It is expected -I'luit. negotiations will be i-iiiiiplel t“il iw'thin a few mouths, when Australia and New Zealand wi’ll be supplied witih the necessary figures <ni which to base an agt'ieemeii'L suitable to -all parties.’ Air Barnes continued. Tho se.rvice will -be flown between Bri.sibane and .Au'kkinil wrth flying boat’s, and the route will lie by wax' of Cape Maria A’-an Diemen. Flights would be made between Brisbane and Auckland twice weekly tit night. The machines which it. is proposed to u.-e on the route tire already in course of .const rue,l-ion at -t he works of Short Brothers, at Rochester, England . '