NEW AIR SERVICES

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22026, 5 February 1935, Page 10

NEW AIR SERVICES

NETWORK OVER DOMINION MANY APPLICATIONS FILED HEARING AT WELLINGTON SITTING COMMENCES TO-DAY [BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION'] WELLINGTON. Monday Air services across Cook Strait and perhaps throughout New Zealand will bo in operation shortly if applications before Che sitting of the Transport Co-ordination Board, which begins tomorrow morning, are approved. The Union Steam Ship Company has filed an application on behalf of National Airways of New Zealand, Limited, which proposes to operate a Palmerston Nortli-Dunedin service with stops at Palmerston North, Blenheim and Christchurch, but not at Wellington, The proposed time-table provides for a departure from Palmerston North at 8 a.m. and arrival at Dunedin at 1 p.m. On the northward trip the departure from Dunedin will be at noon and the arrival at Palmerston North at 5 p.m. Auckland-Invercargill Route Mr. S. E. Neilsen is making an application for New Zealand Airlines, Limited, a company with headquarters at New Plymouth, for an AucklandInvercargill service, machines departing at 9 a.m. and arriving at their destination at 5.5 p.m. On behalf of Dominion Airways, Limited, Mr. T. S. Withers, of Auckland, will ask for authority for a service from Auckland to Dunedin, via New Plymouth, and another from Auckland to Nelson, via the East Coast, with stops at Rotorua, Gisborne, Hastings and Wellington. The propened stops on the flight to Dunedin are New Plymouth, Wanganui, Palmerston North, Wellington, Blenheim, Christchurch, Timaru and Dunedin. The Goodwin-Chichester Aviation Company seeks to run a WellingtonNelson service, with a stop at Blenheim, the complete trip being scheduled to take an hour and a-quarter. Three machines of varied type are mentioned as likely to be used «nd this is the only instance in which tho use of flyingboats is proposed. Cook Strait Airways. Limited, of Nelson, desires to run a service over the same route, but extended down to Hokitika. Neither time-table nor the type of aircraft to be used are specified in the application submitted to the board. Air Taxi Licence Sought Applications for five separate services and also for an air taxi licence are made by New Zealand Airways, Limited, of Dunedin. Among their proposed routes are Auckland to Invercargill, Wellington to Hokitika to Cromwell, and Timaru to Cromwell to Dunedin. The company also proposes to run a service between Tnvercargill and Stewart Island on Sundays only. New Zealand Airways and Falcon Airways, Limited, are rivals for the service between Auckland and Whangarei. New Zealand Airways' schedule provides for a southward flight to bo made in the morning and a northward flight in the afternoon, whereas Falcon Airways would operate in the reverse directions. Falcon Airways' service is timed to take 45 minutes in each direction, which is a-quarter of an hour faster than that of the other company.

On the .West Coast Air Travel (N.Z.), Limited, whose route has already been approved, will come bofore the board again, and West Coast Airways, Limited, asks permission for a Nelson-Okuru service.