ACROSS THE TASMAN
Awarua To Leave Auckland This Morning FIRST COMMERCIAL FLIGHT (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, May 5. Making her first commercial flight from Auckland to Sydney in the service of Tasman Empire Airways, the flyingboat Awarua, commanded by Captain Oscar Garden, will leave from the company’s base at 6 o'clock tomorrow morning. She will arrive at Sydney early in the afternoon and return to Auckland on Thursday afternoon. The Awarua will take six passengers and approximately 5001 b. of airmail. Though an accurate tally of the number of letters was not made, it is estimated that the figure is about 20,000. This is about half the mail carried by the Aotearoa on iter inaugural crossing last week, when first-flight covers formed a large proportion of the mail. Colonel N. S. Falla, one of the United Kingdom representatives on the directorate of the Tasman Empire Airways, and the base commandant of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force overseas base, will be a passenger. The other travellers will be Messrs. T. F. Fausett, G. W. Brown, N. E. Higgs, K. Palmer and J. Percival.
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Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 188, 6 May 1940, Page 8
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182ACROSS THE TASMAN Dominion, Volume 33, Issue 188, 6 May 1940, Page 8
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