PACIFIC AIR ROUTE
IMPORTANT TO EMPIRE TASMAN ENGINEER’S VIEW (Per Press Association.) AUCKLAND, this day. The opinion that the Pacific would provide one of the main air routes of the world, was expressed by Mr. H. O. Houchen, chief engineer of Tasman Empire Airways, who arrived at Auckland this week to take over the active supervision of the work in this country. “Already the time is arriving when the Pacific has got to be regaided as an air route of importance to the Empire,” he said. “In the meantime, the Tasman service will provide information that will be useful who we come to tackle the job. When that is accomplished we will have the world linked up in a big chain of •air routes. A big organisation will be required if it is based here in New Zealand as we all anticipate. It will be the biggest in the world. If it docs not eventuate, I for one, will be very disappointed.”
He would not comment on the plans for the Tasman service. That matter was not in his hands.
Asked about the delivery of the three flying-boats of the Aotearoa type that were to be used on the service, he said that one most certainly would be arriving but he did not knew about the third.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20115, 8 December 1939, Page 11
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