America-N.Z. Air Service to Start Soon
[Special to “Northern Advocate”] WELLINGTON, This Day.
It is anticipated that Pan-American Airways will- resume its service across the Pacific to New Zealand in the near future.
The Minister of Defence, the Hon. F. Jones, said yesterday that he had been advised by the company that it was in a position to resume its service to New Zealand in the very near future.
The company will make experimental flights to Suva, and continue to use Suva as a port of call, should it be found practicable to do so. The company has made rapid progress in recent weeks in preparation for Ihe resumption of the South Pacific service, which was interrupted by the tragic loss of the Samoan Clipper. off American Samoa. No announcement has yet been made concerning the South Seas Clipper, the Boeing machine with which the service is to be operated. She is. however, a sister ship to the Yankee Clipper now making regular commercial crossings of the Atlantic, and her ability to fly the long ocean stretches between Honolulu and Auckland is unquestioned.
Tire route to Auckland from Honolulu will be via Canton Island and Noumea.
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Northern Advocate, 12 July 1939, Page 11
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