AIR SERVICES

Waikato Times, Volume 118, Issue 19762, 18 December 1935, Page 7

AIR SERVICES

COOK STRAIT ROUTE. :k s TIME-TABLE APPROVED. BOARD FIXES FARES. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Tuesday. The time-table for Cook Strait Air\vays on its Welllngton-Blenlieim-K'elson service is fixed in a reserved decision of the Transport Go-ordination Board. The board has had to rearrange the schedule so that it would dove-tail with that of Union Airways on the Palmerston North-Dunedin run at Blenheim, enabling Wellington to toe served through Blenheim. The time-table approved toy the [board is:—Nelson, depart 7.45 a.m.; Wellington, arrive 8.45, depart 9.0; Blenheim, arrive 9..30, depart 9.40; Wellington, arrive 10.10, depart 10.30; Kelson, arrive 11.20, depart 1:45; Blenheim, arrive 2.30, depart 2.40; Wellington, arrive 3.10, depart 4.30; (Blenheim, arrive 5.0, depart 5.10; Nelson, arrive 5.55. The time-table of Union Airways provides that the machine will leave Palmerston North on the southward flight at 8.30 a.m., arriving at Blenheim 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 aeroplane will leave Dunedin at 11.30 a.m. and will arrive at Blenhoim at 2.30 p.m. South Island passengers for Wellington will then transto the Cook Strait Airways aeroplane, leaving Blenheim at 2.40. The. fares fixed by the board in another decision are:—Nelson to Wellington, £2 ss; Wellington to Blenheim, £1 ss. Nelson to Blenheim, £1 10s. The Union Airways fares are: — North to Blenheim, £2 ss; Blenheim to Christchurch, £2 15s; Christchurch to Diinedin, £3 10s. These fares and time-table will be in force until the first rpeeting of the board in February, when the board will sit again to review the matter.