TRIAL FLIGHT FOR NEW AIRLINE, CANADA TO NEW ZEALAND

Wanganui Chronicle, 1 June 1949, Page 6

TRIAL FLIGHT FOR NEW AIRLINE, CANADA TO NEW ZEALAND

Plane Expected To Arrive In The Dominion On Friday

"WELLINGTON, Last Night (PA)..A trial for the new airline from Canada to Australia and New Zealand is being laid by t'ne Canadair Four machine. The latest organisation in the Pacific field is the,Canadian Pacific Airlines, subsidiary of the Canadian Pacific Railway

The route now being covered is from Vancouver, via San Francisco, Honolulu, Canton Island and Fiji, to Sydney. The latest information places the date of arrival in Australia as Friday. Though approved plans for t'ne Canadian Pacific Airline's coverage ot the south includes a link from Fiji to Auckland, no preliminary arrangement has been made at this end for the survey plane to include New Zealand in its first flight. Today, however, unofficial information reached the Canadian Pacific Railway headquarters at Auckland that a Canadian Four would fly from Sydney to New Zealand on June 9.

Though it is understood that the preliminary arrangements for reception in New Zealand have been put in hand, the actual airport of arrival is not known. In a normal southward regular run, Whenuapai, the only international civil airport in New Zealand, would be used. In the present' circumstances the military aerodrome at Ohakea could take the plane. Overseas passenger planes do not use Paraparaumu, but a survey flight might not be regarded in the same light as a civil passenger one. It is reported that the plane i.* carrying 18 people. The Wellington manager for the Canadian Pacific Railway, Mr. C. E. Leighton, said this was the first step in an expansion o. Canadian Pacific Airlines beyond the borders of Canada.