UNION AIRWAYS

Southland Times, Issue 23228, 17 June 1937, Page 4

UNION AIRWAYS

TEST FLIGHTS FOE NEW PLANES AUCKLAND-WELLINGTON SERVICE (Special to The Times) AUCKLAND, June 16. Test flights to the schedule prepared for the Auckland-Wellington air service of Union Airways Ltd. which is to be inaugurated on June 27 will bt made between the two cities for three days commencing tomorrow. The Lockheed Electra monoplanes purchased for the service will be used for the flights, which will be made under normal commercial conditions. One of the two Lockheeds already in New Zealand will leave Rongotai aerodrome, Wellington,, at noon tomorrow and is scheduled to reach Mangere aerodrome, where the company has established its headquarters in Auckland, at three o’clock in the afternoon. Ten-minute stops will be made at Palmerston North and New Plymouth Further flights are scheduled for Friday and Saturday. A machine will leave Mangere at noon on Friday with a party of guests invited by Union Airways for the occasion. The party will include three women, officials of the company and Press and radio representatives. The Auckland members will return north by air from Wellington on Saturday, ‘arriving at three o’clock in the afternoon.