STATE TAKING OVER WEST COAST AIR SERVICE
t’.A. WELLINGTON, June 28. j Air Travel (New Zealand), Ltd., a private air service, which operates round Nelson and the West Coast, is tibout to be taken over by the State. Negotiations for the transfer of the company’s services to the National Airways Corporation are understood Ito be nearing completion. The comIpany has four aircraft —two De .Havilland Fox Moths, a De Havilland Rapide, and a De Havilland Dominie. They run on daily services from Hokitika to Nel’.on and to Weheka, near Franz Joseph Glacier, and run a bi-weekly service from Hokitika to Okuru, in South Westland. In the first three months of this year the company’s aircraft flew 54,741 miles, and carried 987 passengers.
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Grey River Argus, 28 June 1947, Page 4
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