MT. COOK AND QUEENSTOWN.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 4327, 17 August 1937, Page 5

MT. COOK AND QUEENSTOWN.

NEW AEROPLANE SERVICE.

MAY OPEN BY NOVEMBER

It is hoped that the contemplated air service between Christchurch, Mount Cook and Queenstown will begin operations this summer, possibly in November, according to Mr E. L. Wigley, managing director of tire Mount Cook and Southern Lakes Tourist Company, Ltd.

“We have got our license-, and we now have a good aerodrome at Mt. Cook,” Mr Wigley told a reporter at 1 Christchurch, “but we have not yet got the aerodrome ready at Queenstown. We are hoping, however, that the service will be begun about November. It will mean that instead of having to travel to Tiraaru and then to Mount-Cook by train and car, the public can make the jourrapidly by aeroplane in about an hour and a-half.” Mr Wigley added that the fares for the arcoplane trip would not be much higher than those for the journey at present, and if the aerodrome at Queenstown was completed the public could look forward to the service by November. He could not announce at present what types of machine were likely to be used for the service.