AIR SERVICE TO BE EXTENDED
TO HAAST VALLEY [Per Press Association. — Copyright .l HOKITIKA, This Day. In view of the decision to undertake the Haast Pass Road construction work, Air Travel, Ltd., has decided to extend its operations to the Haast Valley, and, to that end, landing grounds have been selected at the foot of Haast Pass. When workmen are employed, urgent supplies, mails and parcels will be delivered at regular intervals, instead of waiting days for pack-horse service. The aeroplane service will also be invaluable in cases of sickness, accidents or other emergency among the workmen. The Westland Progress League, on Monday night, resolved to urge the Post and Telegraph Department to make the South Westland air mail twice weekly in future, and also to consider erecting a telephone line over the Haast Pass service road construction operations, and to provide a duplicate outlet for the far southern districts. It was also agreed to ask for the overhaul of the existing telephone service via Mahitahi.
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Northern Advocate, 19 August 1936, Page 10
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