AIR SERVICES.
’PLANES FOR NEW ZEALAND.
Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, Nov. 18,
Aeroplanes for the services to be operated by Union Airways, Ltd., and Cook Strait Airways, Ltd., will bo assembled at Wigram aerodrome, Christchurch, and Hobsonville air base, Auckland, within the next few weeks. Two D.H. four-engined express airliners ordered for the Palmerston North-Dunedin service are on the Waipawa which reached Port Chalmers on Sunday, and which will berth at Lyttelton on Wednesday. Another will be delivered by the Port Wyndham early in December. An English engineering expert is on the way to New Zealand to supervise the assembly of the machines, which will be flown in over the trunk route before the opening of the service. . The machines will be fitted with wireless and will have dual control. The pilots have already undergone a special course of instruction in blind flying under officers of the New Zealand Air Force. The Blenheim-Nelson- Wellington service will be run with DH Dragon six dual-engine machines. The first will arrive at Auckland on December 4 and the second on December 9. It is anticipated that the service will be operating by December 22 or 23.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 302, 19 November 1935, Page 12
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193AIR SERVICES. Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 302, 19 November 1935, Page 12
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