AIR SERVICES

Timaru Herald, Volume CXL, Issue 20294, 18 December 1935, Page 14

AIR SERVICES

DECISION OF BOARD By Telegraph—Press Association WELLINGTON, December 17. The timetable for Cook Strait Airways on its service serving Wellingto l, Blenheim and Nelson is fixed In a reserved decision of the Transport Joordination Board which had to rearrange the schedule so that it would dovetail with that of Union Airways on the Palmerston North-Dunedin run at Blenheim, enabling Wellington to served through Blenheim . The timetable of Union Airways provides that a machine will leave Palmerston North on the southward flight at 9.27. Passengers will then be able to transfer to the Cook Strait Airways machine leaving Blenheim at 9.40 for Wellington. On the northward flight the Union Airways ’plane will leave Dunedin at 11.30 a.m. and arrive at Blenheim at 2,30 p.m. South Island passengers for Wellington will then transfer to a Cook Strait Airways’ plane leaving Blenheim at 2.40. Fares fixed by the Board In another decision are: Nelson - Wellington £2/5/-, Wellington-Blenheim £l/5/-, Nelson-Blenheim £l/10/-. The Union Airways fares are: Palmerston NorthBlenheim £2/5/-, Blenheim-Christ-church £2/15/-, Christchurch-Dunedin £3/10/-. The fares and timetable will be In force till the first meeting of the Board in February, when the Board will sit again to review the matter.