TEN HOURS FROM SYDNEY TO AUCKLAND
— — — ^ ■ * - MH TEN DAYS FROM AUCKLAND TO ^ LEVIN! How the advantages of fast air travel can be nullified by poor 'facilities for transport from the „air base to the travellers ultimate destination is shown by the ex- * (perience of two persons who re- r ._uu cently arrived m Auckland from Sydney, and Who are coming to f ' Leyin to reside. -Ui ' •They arrived in Auckland from * » 1 v ' Sydney on Saturday, May 11, ; . n. after the.usual passage of ap-T-proximately ten honrs in a Tas- . man Empire Airways flying-boat, "*'Ul but wili not be able to travel to -'V*. \ Levin until May, 20, because they s ir » J are unable to secure reserved , r seats on a train coming south until that date. Their whole journey will have taken ten and a :• '• " half days^-half a day crossing the Tasman but ten days to get from. Auckland to Levin! Being elderly people, they were not inclined to take the risk of havi»g to . . stand for a long period in the train, which was the only solutipn without reservecl seats.
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Chronicle (Levin), 16 May 1946, Page 4
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182TEN HOURS FROM SYDNEY TO AUCKLAND Chronicle (Levin), 16 May 1946, Page 4
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