Flights From New Plymouth to Auckland

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 561, 14 January 1929, Page 8

Flights From New Plymouth to Auckland

Planes will Make Trips This Summer HOLIDAYS BY AIR Five Moth planes will be in Auckland early next month, and Mr. Douglas Mill. managing, director of New Zealand Airways. Ltd., is confident that a large number of passengers will be carried between Auckland and Taranaki during this summer. Mr. Mill, who was on his way to New Plymouth by car, broke his j our . ney at Te Kuiti on Thursday. The object of his trip to Taranaki is to arrange delivery of a Moth plane to the Hawke’s Bay Aero Club. Speaking to The Sun’s representative, at Te Kuiti. on the development of aviation in New Zealand, Mr. Mill stated that early next month there would be five Moth planes in Auckland alone, and he was confident that a large number of passengers would he carried between Auckland and Taranaki during the present summer The question of providing landing' grounds was an important one. and he regretted to learn that nothing so far, had been done in Te Kuiti in’conuection with the racecourse site at Te Kumi. which could be made quite suit" able for an airdrome at little expense If Te Rum were not prepared m proceed with the project, he said perhaps a suitable ground could he provided at Otorohanga. The aerial traffic to the Waitomo Caves, said Mr Mill, would be an important factor’ making it possible for overseas vieitors to leave Auckland, visit the threp caves, and return to town on the same The trip by air from Waitomo to Rotorua, said Mr. Mill, would taka approximately an hour, and at ttfe latter town a landing-ground was at present under construction. Mr. Mill stated that he iiad control of a fund from which a substantial donation could be made for the purpose of providing a hangar, provided Te Kuiti could provide the necessary ®* te * . Gt ~ er towns were making use 0f u th m °5 er ’ so tbere was no reason why Te Kuiti should not do likewise.