TRUNK AIR SERVICE
CLAIMS OF RIVAL COMPANIES. WELLINGTON, Friday. Lengthy negotiations for the purpose of combining the companies competing for a trunk air service apparently having proved abortive, tneir claims were again presented to the Transport Co-ordination Board at this afternoon’s sitting. For the GreatPacific Airways, Mr G. P. Finlay said his company proposed to serve a greater area than did the Union Company, and would cover it more comprehensively. The proposals were based on a report of Sir Charles Kingsford Smith and the late Mr Ulm, and aimed at the' development of a service from Auckland to Dunedin, together with feeder services.
Mr C. G. White, for the Union Company, said his company was honest enough to say that it would not call at Wellington until the facilities were better. It would be easy for an applicant to say after a license was granted that they would not call there. Mr 11. J. Knight, of New Zealand Airways, said that at first their service was concentrating on freight and would run from Palmerston North to Dunedin, but the aim would be to connect with Auckland and New Plymouth at the earliest possible date. The Board 'will sit again to-morrow. —(P-A.)
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 23 March 1935, Page 3
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