TASMAN AIR SERVICE
COMPANY READY CAPTAIN TAYLOR'S STATEMENT SYDNEY. May 6. Captain P. G. Taylor, chairman of thft Traii'S-Tasman Air Service Development Company, Limited, announced that local finance/ Australian persomml, and organisation are available to commence a regular service between Australia and New Zealand, which might be regarded its the first stage in the British air line acros-s the Pacific to Vancouver, via Suva, and Honolulu. The only thing now required was the Commonwealth /Government’s approval. NEGOTIATIONS IN HAND AUSTRALIAN REPORT DENIED NEW YORK, May 6Regarding the published reports in Australia that the extension o f the commercial air service from Honolulu to New Zealand has been postponed. PanAmerican Airways to-day in funned the Associated Press that negotiations with the New Zealand Government were not completed and, therefore, any reference 1o inaugurating a service would be pre■mature. It is said that considerable technical work in surveying the route ‘has been accomplished, and the hope •is expressed that the starting of operations would not !>>■ und-.ilv delayed.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 108, 8 May 1936, Page 7
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