CHANGES IN TRAVEL

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18208, 2 October 1933, Page 8

CHANGES IN TRAVEL

e- b o .1 t ■ : | INTERNAL AIR ROUTES 1 BpSi- . I 11 -IN GREAT BRITAIN If,'; t y-' ■ | 20 FOR 1934 ’ LONDON. Au-. 1.3. I |■; Inauguration bßer Ops, week of an ; Sairway linking; London with Plymouth. Shy wav ;<ff - Portsmouth and Suuthump- | Stott w ill Armg': op lo 11 the number of air rbutcs JioK. .hejjig regularly operated in Great- Britain, apart from those serving the Cootiueut. Nine or JiJO nlore services are planned for first j pcthritim .ipjthe -spring and summer pt j Miext ye’aYT iiit'Uiding tang, distance, lines London. 'Newcastle and Ediuelnirgh. and in ,tlie far north between IttTverness.. LJlapool and Stornoway. IF This new development in British air indicates u big change from The opinion prgyailing only two or -three years agi>—that the railway and |iroad sy&ejh in Britain provided 'wall reasonable' transportation needs and • that the aeroplane offered little advanritag'-’ even in tTinc saved dver the long r'distance j^jjre-ss:More careful investigation on. the subject and close istitdv ot the'hpip'have revealed many -.-routes oyer ■ which the aeroplane can I- compete -with fair prospects of success [t with vehicles. —V! " ‘ ■- "< |§s-..- ♦ /’ 1 ™' r*-..

in many parts of the country geographical peculiarities make establishment of an air service desirable, and Jikoly to he profit-earning. Important} among these special features are the estuaries of the big rivers. To-day aeroplanes operating regular ferry services over the Thames, Severn and Humber show, a much better timetable than any railway line or steamship concern. Servjees which have grown from similar reasoning link Blackpool with the Isle of Man, and the mainland of Scotland with the Orkney Islands. That between London and the Isle-.of Wight, eliminating the slow and irritating trip Iby ferry boat across the Solc.ul . is attracting much traffic. A sgrvico plan lied for opening in 1934 will follow the I obvious' route across the Irish Sea lo I Dublin, and thence on to Galway. North and South Wales may have aconnecting air line, plying over a route where- ground travel -is notoriously slow. i TO PLYMOUTH IN TWO 110UBS ! The new Loi-idoii-Plymouth service is timed to cover the distance—lßs miles as the crow flies—m two hours, including halts along the way and an allowance for delays. Normal cruising speed of the three twin-engined Mouospur cabin monoplanes acquired for the service is sufficient for them lo c'oniplcte the journey in SO minutes' flying time. The fastest train takes more than four hours. Exhaustive- study of weather conditions over the route indicates that, even in the worst of the winter mouths, days on which the aeroplanes will be unable to get through with safety will be very few ; as the pilots gain experience of the route, they will naturally he ; able to venture forth in worse ami worse weather, t

There are very few days indeed on which the Lomkm-i’aris service is upset by weather, and the route linking I lie two capitals is alllicted by rat her more difficult weather than the line ol the new airway to the west of England. Undoubtedly the really economic running made possible by the use of modern British air line craft has done much to encourage these activities, which are not supported hv any form of State subsidy. Business men are realising that the modern aeroplane is an essential partner in transportation.. The big railway groups are entering I lie, new field. Already the Great Western Bail wav is running a line across country li'oiri Birmingham to Uanlill and Plymouth. The Southern Bailway and the London, Midland and Scrillish Bailway are. preparing then plans. The deciding factor is that aircrall micli as tile I land ley- Page Type 42 biplanes which assure the London-Paris service of Imperial Airways, the de Havilland Fox Moth aml Dragon machines which are used on live of the present internal services. Ilm three-engined Amo Ten and Spartan Cruiser monoplanes, and the Monnspni' craft ensure safe and fast 1 ravel at reasonable cost.

A strong protest against “the drinking and disgraceful conduct" which it was alleged took place at the movie ball, held in the Town Hall mi .uigtisl--23,-was made to the Wha/igarei Borough Council in a letter from the Whangaroi branch of the W.C.T.U. It Was asked that the council make it its business in future to supervise more strictly any further functions of that nature, the council decided to ask the union to justify the charges.