THOUSAND TOURISTS

Otago Daily Times, Issue 27291, 18 January 1950, Page 4

THOUSAND TOURISTS

Proposal Of Canadian Airlines Call At Auckland Sought Special Correspondent WELLINGTON, Jan. 17.' “A thousand tourists a year could be brought to New Zealand by Canadian Pacific Airlines’ projected service from Vancouver to Sydney, via Auckland,” said the president of CPM, Mr G. W. McConachie, today. Amplifying his statement on the application of his company for a licence to include Auckland in its service, Mr McConachie said that at present Pan-American Airways and British Commonwealth Pacific Airways each flew two services a week to Australia and one each to New Zealand. Canadian Pacific flew once a week to Australia. If New Zealand was placed on the main route—Van-couver-San Francisco-Auckland-Syd-ney—seven services a week could be given.

CPA, he said, did not propose an increase in the frequency of the service to the South Pacific at present but merely asked for permission to call at Auckland to place New Zealand on the main route instead of remaining out on stub line. The call at Auckland would add only a few hundred miles more to the long flight down the Pacific to Sydney. Canadian Pacific Airlines, Mr McConachie said, were not thinking of a service to the South Island. Auckland was the logical point of call of trans-Pacific aircraft. Nor was it proposed to fly Comets which Canadian Pacific had recently ordered from Britain down the Pacific. They were for the company’s North Pacific service from Vancouver via Tokio and Shanghai to Hongkong.