PAN-AMERICAN AIRWAYS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23796, 1 May 1939, Page 13

PAN-AMERICAN AIRWAYS

SOUTH PACIFIC SERVICE RESUMPTION TO AUCKLAND PROBABLE (Per United Press Association) AUCKLAND, Apl. 30. The resumption by Pan-American Airways of its South Pacific service to Auckland in the comparatively near future is suggested by advice received that Mr E. B. Buxton, the company’s meteorologist, who was in Auckland last year, is to return by the Mariposa on May 12. Mr Buxton was for several months engaged in compiling a weather history of the South Pacific and worked in close collaboration with the New Zealand Government meteorologists. Following the loss of the flying boat Samoan Clipper in January of last year, most of the members of the company’s staff who were in Auckland were transferred to other bases on the Pan-American network of airways. Mr A. L. Lowes, airport manager in Auckland, and Mr A. L. Charman, the chief radio operator, were both recalled to the United States, and Mr Buxton was transferred ultimately to airports on the company’s China route, serving for a period at Manila. The announcement of Mr Buxton’s early return follows a statement by the Prime Minister (Mr M. J. Savage) last week, expressing his belief that the Pan-American Airways service between Francisco and Auckland would go on as originally intended. Mr Savage added that he did not consider that the service would go to Australia instead of to Auckland.