AIR SERVICE RESUMED
DUTCH PLANE LEAVES FOR JAVA. By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright. London, Sept. 25. Amsterdam advice states that .the first fortnightly mail plane left for Batavia (Java) to-day, piloted by Evert van Dyk. It carried 23,122 letters. The dismissal of Evert van Dyk, who was Wing-Commander Kingsford Smith's second pilot on the trans-Atlantic flight in the Southern Gross, caused a strike on August 29 among the pilots on the Dutch Air Lines and all services were held up. No machines left Amsterdam or Rotterdam for some days and all aeroplanes abroad returned. Van Dyk refused to accept conditions similar to those imposed on flights to Java for the service to India to be started in September. He led a protest against the rate of wages allotted lor that, service, the inception of which was postponed. All the pilots on strike were dismissed.
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Taranaki Daily News, 27 September 1930, Page 7
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