COOK STRAIT AIRWAYS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22751, 11 December 1935, Page 10

COOK STRAIT AIRWAYS

BLENHEIM-WELLINGTON TRIP BOARD REDUCES PROPOSED 1 FARE (Per United Pbess Association) WELLINGTON, December 10. ' Objections to the Cook Strait Airways making a charge of £1 15s for the trip between Blenheim and Wellington were voiced at a meeting of the Transport Co-ordination Board in Wellington on Friday last, and at the time the chairman of the board (Sir Stephen Allen) said the board did not approve of this particular fare in the table of proposed fares submitted by the company. Sir Stephen indicated that the board intended reducing the fare, but did not indicate by what amount. The board's decision was made available this afternoon, the fare for the Blenheim-Wellington trip having been reduced to £1 ss. With this exception the table of fares submitted by the Cook Strait Airways to the board has been approved. The amended time table submitted by the Union Airways for the, service between Dunedin and Palmerston North providing for the departure of a machine from Dunedin at 11.30 a.m. instead of 8.15 a.m. has been approved, as also have the fares as submitted. These fares and time tables operate only until the meeting of the board in February, when the whole question will be reopened de novo. '' ,