TASMAN AIR SERVICE

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22436, 4 June 1936, Page 14

TASMAN AIR SERVICE

QUESTION OF TERMINAL THE CLAIMS OF WELLINGTON [BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION] WELLINGTON, Wednesday Suggestions that Wellington should be made the terminus of any air service across the Tasman Sea were made at a meeting of the Wellington Chamber of Commerce. Replying to the deputation from the chamber which waited on him on this subject, the Postmaster-General, the Hon. F. Jones, stated that little could be said about the transocean air mail service until finality was reached in the negotiations between Great Britain and Australia. The terminal point of the service would have to be at the discretion of the flying experts ; On tho flying route from England to New Zealand, however, the shortest course frfter leaving Darwin would be from Brisbane to Auckland, and if that eventuated the distribution by air would probably be made to the rest of New Zealand.

Mr. M. G. C. McCaul considered that an air service would pay its way if run across the Tasman Sea: it was a necessity. However, it would pay better if run between the nerve centres of the two countries, Sydney and Wellington, than between Brisbane and Auckland. "They are both out-of-the-way towns," he said.