NEW AIR SERVICE
AUCKLAND TO WELLINGTON SERIES OF TEST FLIGHTS (Special to Daily Times) AUCKLAND. June 16. Test (lights to the schedule prepared for the Auckland-Wellington air service of Union Airways, Ltd., which is to be inaugurated on June 27, will be made between the two cities for three days, commencing to-morrow. The Lockheed Elcctra monoplanes purchased for the service will be used tor the (lights, which will be made under normal commercial conditions. One of the two Lockheeds already in New Zealand will leave the Rotigotai Aerodrome, Wellington, at noon to-morrow, and is scheduled to reach the Mangere Aerodrome, where the company has established its headquarters in Auckland, at 3 o’clock m the afternoon. Stops of 10 minutes will be made at Palmerston North and New Plymouth. Further flights nave been arranged for Friday and Saturday. The machine will leave Mangere at noon on Friday with a party of guests invited by Union Airways for the occasion. The party will include three women, officials of the company, and press and radio representatives. The Auckland passengers will return north by air from Wellington on Saturday, arriving at 3 o’clock in the afternoon.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23219, 17 June 1937, Page 10
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192NEW AIR SERVICE Otago Daily Times, Issue 23219, 17 June 1937, Page 10
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