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TRANS-TASMAN SERVICE
SURVEY FLIGHT PLANS
(Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day
Following the delivery of two other Tasman flying-boats, the regular air service between Auckland and Sydney will probably be started in November.
A statement was made last _ night by Union Airways in confirmation of the information received from Sydney that J-t was hoped the Australia and Awarua, the two remaining (lying-boats to be used on the crossing, would be flown to New Zealand in October.
The .vice-chairman of Qantas Empire Airways, Mr. A. E. Rudder, stated in Sydney last week that the fact that Tasman Empire Airways, which would operate the service, had not yet been .formed into a company was of small moment. The company would be formed well before the service was ready to begin.
Until the other 'two', flying-boats are delivered, the Aotearoa will be used for ihe training of personnel and it is probable that a number of survey flights will be .made. These will embrace the Pacific, as well as the Tasman and, it is understood, when a comprehensive engineering check, to be .started to-day is completed, the first survey flight will be to Suva.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20028, 29 August 1939, Page 11
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