PACIFIC AIRWAYS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 88, 12 March 1935, Page 7

PACIFIC AIRWAYS

TO BEGIN IN JULY. CALIFORNIA TO HAWAII. THENCE TO CHINA. (United Press Association—By Electrio Telegraph.—Copyright.) Received March 12, 10.10 a.m. NEW YORK, March 11. Pan-American Airways announce that a steamship will sail from San Francisco during the first week in April carrying a construction crew, 6000 tons of material and special equipment to establish bases on the proposed trans-Pacific air line. They will be completed by the middle of July, when the initial flight operations will commence. The service extends from California to Hawaii, thence to Midway Island, to Wake Island, Guam and Manila. It then goes to Canton (China) wliere connections will be made with the Chinese National Railways. EMPIRE AIR ROUTES. SUBSTANCE OF AGREEMENT. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, March 9. A Times message from Canberra states the Federal Cabinet has approved the tentative agreement on the proposed Empire air service, reached at Sydney last month between representatives of the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand. It is understood “that the Sydney conference accepted ill principle the British scheme for the carriage, after 1937, of all first-class Empire mails at a cheai> flat rate, subject to amendment of tlie* proposal to use flyingboats on the Singapore-Sydney stretch, and subject to an admission of the right of the Australian Post Office to impose a surcharge, if necessary. The proposed service would bring New Zealand, for mail purposes, within eight or nine days of London, and would increase to more than 5,000,000 miles the annual mileage to he flown by Imperial Airways, requiring twice the present number of machines and the carriage of much heavier loads. Preparatory work for the extension of the service is already in hand. ACROSS THE SAHARA. “LIGHTHOUSE” IN DESERT. "PARIS, March 10. The first Sahara •‘lighthouse” erected to guid'e aeroplanes will operate at Bidon Cinq, in the middle of the waterless Tanesruft, otherwise the “Land of Fear.” It consists of a wheelless railway carriage for the accommodation of trans-Sahara air passenger's, and a petrol dump, with a native attendant.