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DEVELOPMENT OF AIRCRAFT M OCEAN LINER DOOMED " [by telegraph-—owx correspondent] WELLINGTON. Sunday The view that the ocean liner as it was at present was doomed, was expressed by Commodore C. A. Bartlett to the Company of Master Mariners of New Zealand last evening. Commodore Bartlett, who is a retired superintendent of the White Star Lino and a warden of the Honourable Company of Master Mariners, said ha believed that ocean-liners would be superseded by air transport. There is a time coming when aircraft are going to supersede the liner," he declared. "I say that myself, although I would -
hate to see it." New Zealanders would have to get air-minded, he continued. Other countries were, and in America there were many air lines. In England one might see air liners leaving every week carrying 42 people. " The sea will never give up its freighters," Commodore Bartlett said. " Ships may be used to some- extent for cruises, but they will never be the passenger liners of the future. Great freighters will speed from the Dominions over seas, but I do not really see how the liner as it is can live." , Mentioning briefly the growing importance of air defence, Commodore Bartlett said boys fosing trained for the merchant service should be given some idea of how to navigate aircraft. -
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21717, 5 February 1934, Page 8
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