AIR SERVICES

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 30, 5 February 1935, Page 7

AIR SERVICES

DOMINION NETWORK - NUMEROUS APPLICATIONS BOARD TO SIT TO-DAY (Per P-ie»g AtioeiAion ). A WELLINGTON, Feb. 4. ' Air services across Cook Strait, and perhaps throughout New Zealand, will be in operation shortly, if applications before the sitting of the Transport Coordination Board, which begins to-mor-row morning, are approved. lhe Union Steamship Company has filed an application on behalf of National Airways of New Zealand, Ltd., which proposes to operate a Palmerston North-Dunedin service, with stops at Palmerston North, Blenheim and Christchurch, but not at Wellington. The proposed time-table provides for departure from Palmerston North at 8 a.m. and arrival at Dunedin at 1 p.m. On the northward trip the departure from Dunedin will be at noon, and the arrival at Palmerston North at 5 p.m. Mr. S. E. Neilsen is making application for New Zealand Airlines Ltd., a company with headquarters at New 1 lymouth. fjr an Auckland-Invercargill service, the machines departing at 9 a.m. and arriving at thiir destination at 5.5 p.m. On behalf of Dominion Airways, Ltd., Air. T. 8. Withers, of Auckland, will ask for authority for a service from. Auckland to Dunedin via New Plymouth, and another from Auckland to Nelson via the East Coast, with stops at Rotorua, Gisborne, Hastings and Wellington. Proposed stops on the flight to Dunedin are New Plymouth, Wanganui, Palmerston North, Wellington, Blenheim, Christchurch, Timaru and Dunedin. lhe Goodwin-Chichester Aviation Company will seek to run a Welling-ton-Nelson service, with a stop at Blenheim, the complete trip being scheduled to take an hour and a-quarter. Three machines of varied type are mentioned as likely to bo used, and this is the only instance in which the use of flying boats is proposed. Cook Strait Airways, Ltd., of Nelson, desires to run 41 service over the same route, but extended down to Hokitika. Neither the time-table nor the type of aircraft to be used are specified in tho application submitted to the board. Applications for five separate services, and also for an air taxi licence, are made by New Zealand Airways, Ltd., of Dunedin. Among their proposed routes are Auckland-Invercargill-Wellington-Hokitika-Cromwell. and Timaru-Cromwell-Dunedin. The company also proposes to run a service between Invercargill and Stewart Island on Sundays. Only New Zealand Airways and Falcon Airways, Ltd., are rivals for a service between Auckland and Wbangarei. New Zealand Airways’ schedule provides for the southward eight to be made in the morning, and northward in the afternoon, whereas Falcon Airways would operate in the reverse directions. Tho Falcon Airways service is timed to take 45 minutes in e-.ch direction, which is a quarter of an hour faster than that of the other company. On tho West. Const, Air Travel (N.Z.) Ltd., whose route Ims already been approved, will come, before tho board again, ami West Coast Airways, Ltd., will ask permission for a NelsonOkuru service.