REGULAR AIR SERVICE
GISBORNE TO NAPIER PLANS ALMOST COMPLETED. (Per United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, June 8. 'Plans for a regular air service between Napier and Gisborne are now nearing completion, according to Mr E. A. Robin--soil, organiser of the venture, who is leaving Wellington for Gisborne tomorrow in the hope of completing negotiations for the formation of a company to inaugurate the service. The syndicate, which intends making application for registration as a company within the next fortnight, proposes to be known as " Aerial Services, Ltd.” The intention is to operate a' service with a Blackburn-Segrave cabin monoplane, seating a pilot and three passengers, and powered by two 120 horse-power inverted Gipsy engines. The machine is to be imported from England, and it is hoped to have the service established in August. The headquarters of the concern are to be in Gisborne.
The intention is to run one two-way journey in the morning, connecting _ with the Wellington express. If sufficient traffic is forthcoming an afternoon service will also be run. Mr Robinson is to be managing director. The chief pilot, who will also be a director, will be Captain ,T. Stewart-Dick, late of the Royal Air Force and a former pilot in the CairoBagdad air mail. As the machine will have a cruising speed of 120 miles an hour, the journey between the two towns will be accomplished in about threequarters of an hour.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21975, 9 June 1933, Page 10
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