EXCURSION BY AIR LINER
English Party to Make Trip to Iraq FORTY=TWO=SEATER ’PLANE OPENING OP PIPE LINES (United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph Copyright). Received 1.45 p.m. to-day.) LONDON, Jan. 4. The Daily Telegraph states that a 42seater Imperial Airways air liner will leavo Croydon to-morrow and take a party to, Iraq and back. The largest aeroplane ever privately chartered in England, it will take a party of guests to Iraq for the official opening of the pipe lines -which will carry oil from Kirkuk to Tripoli and Haifa. The flight will be made in daily stages of three or four hundred miles. The guests will eat and sleep at hotels. The King of Iraq will perform the first opening ceremony at Kirkuk on January 14, and thereafter there will be ceremonies at Damascus, Tripoli, and Haifa. The final function will be at Amman.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/HAWST19350105.2.63
Bibliographic details
Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 5 January 1935, Page 6
Word Count
144EXCURSION BY AIR LINER Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 5 January 1935, Page 6
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Hawera Star. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in