PURCHASED FOR N.Z.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18067, 19 April 1933, Page 7

PURCHASED FOR N.Z.

AUSTRALIAN AIR LINER EIGHT-PASSENGER .CAPACITY (Elec. Tei. Copyright—United Press Assn.) SYDNEY, April 18. At the auction sale of Australian National Airways, in liquidation, the passenger plane Southern Sky was purchased on behalf of Mr. 11. M. Mackay, managing director of New Zealand Airways, the price being £2150. The plane will remain in Sydney pending advice from New Zealand. It is a triple-engined craft with capacity tor eight passengers. .Regular air mail and passenger services between Tiniaru and Auckland are contemplated by New Zealand Airways, Limited, according to Mr. Mackay, managing director, who has just returned from Sydney after his trip across the Tasman iri the Southern Cross. Mr. Mackay announced that he was negotiating in Australia for the purchase of two Avro 10 type machines, fitted with Armstrong-Siddeley-Lynx engines, similar to the Southern Cross, but having a greater cruising speed for the proposed service. Each aeroplane will have accommodation for 12 passengers. It is intended to have two machines on a regular schedule and ono in reserve. While there is a possibility that Christchurch will be the southern terminus, Mr. Mackay said he would do his utmost to extend flights to Timaru and to make landing points en route to Auckland at Christchurch, Wellington, and New Plymouth. Sir Charles Kingsford Smith, who is expected to return to New Zealand about Christmas, has promised to sponsor the scheme, and that when the service is ready to be started, he and his co-pilot, Captain P. G. Taylor, will inaugurate it.