NEW AIR SERVICE
LOCKHEED AT MILSON
(Special to the "Evening Post.")
PALMERSTON N., This Day.
The first of the new LockheedElcctra monoplanes to be used in the Auckland-Wellington air service ' arrived at Milson Aerodrome at 1.15 p.m. yesterday, completing the journey non-stop via New Plymouth in a little over 1£ hours from Hobsonville. Mr. Moyo W. Stephens, jun., who piloted the machine, said the trip'down was| very satisfactory though there was nothing much to say about it. \ The| reliance placed in theI'machine was revealed by the fact that only one test flight was carried out at Auckland before setting out on the trip south to Palmerston North. Mr. Stephens said this was possible because of the thorough examination of every parti made before it left the works. - I
Mr. TV Maurice Clarke, manager for Union Airways, who was a passenger, said he had no doubt the machines would prove admirable for the service.
Mr. Stephens returned to Auckland last night by train and will fly the second Lockheed down probably on Saturday. He will then give Union Airways. pilots a course of instruction.
Mr. Clarke was unable to say when the first machine would ,be taken to Wellington but stated that a trial flight would be made before the service commenced.
No agreement on the questions of houi-s of work or rates of pay was arrived at by the Conciliation Council yesterday in the Dominion hotel and restaurant workers' dispute, and the proceedings were adjourned to July IS.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 131, 4 June 1937, Page 6
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