AIR SERVICE
N.Z. AND U.S.A
POSSIBLY IN TWO YEARS
HINT FROM BALCHEN
(Special to "Normern Advocate,”)
AUCKLAND, This Day
On Iho authority of Bernl Balchon, the* distinguished air pilot, it is learned that seaplanes will be in operation in the course of two years between New Zealand and the United States, carrying mails and passengers and taking I!.', days on the journey, by way of Honolulu and Suva. ITe said that commercial aviation was being developed extremely rapidly and it was common talk in Hying circles in America that the Pacific would soon be tackled by commercial airmen. “It behoves New Zealand to be the first in the field," he said, “otherwise Australia may be made the terminus.”
He expressed surprise that there was no air service between Auckland and Dunedin, as flights could be made in five hours, . There was no excuse for holding back with aviation at its present state of development.
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Northern Advocate, 10 August 1934, Page 11
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154AIR SERVICE Northern Advocate, 10 August 1934, Page 11
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