PAN-AMERICAN AIRWAYS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19314, 3 May 1937, Page 12

PAN-AMERICAN AIRWAYS

STAFF IN NEW ZEALAND AUCKLAND RADIO STATION (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, last night. The last member of the staff of Pan-American Airways in Auckland, of the party M'hieh came to New Zealand from the United States late last year, Mr. W. T. Jarboe, will leave for Honolulu by the liner Monterey to-morrow. The radio station in Auckland, of which Mr. Jarboe has been in charge, will not be closed, however, as the company has engaged a New Zealand operator, Mr. R. K. Edwards, Wellington, who will remain at the company's temporary headquarters. The New Zealand 'operator has been engaged permanently. His duties in the immediate future will consist solely of handling meteorological information, which i* being forwarded to Pago Pago, American Samoa, for use in conjunction with reports from the various Pacific islands to enable the company's meteorologists to make a detailed study of the South Pacific weather. This is a necessary preliminary to inaugurating any air service, and is likely to extend over several months. With the return of Mr. Jarboe to the company's operational headquarters at Alameda, California, there will begin a series of conferences concerning the practicabality of the proposed air service to New Zealand and the presentation of information gathered here and at other proposed ports of call along the route by various experts connected with' the survey flight.