AIR AND SEA TERMINAL

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 27, 26 October 1937, Page 10

AIR AND SEA TERMINAL

— Press Associafion.T "

Stewart Island Suggested SOUTHLAND ENTERS FRAY

(By Telegrapk-

INVERCARGILL, Oct. 25. j Auckland and Wellington are not to' have tke battlo for air and sea service terminals all to themselves. Soutkland has now entered tke fray witk a claim(upported by figures. Tke opinion .tkat Soutkland skould' advance its claims as tke terminal forj tke proposed .Tasman air service was expressed by Mr. A. S. Russell at a meeting of tke Soutkland Progress League at Gore. Mr. Russell said tkere was an advantage in .tke skorter distanceB from various parts of Australia ■ to Soutkland. Tke distance from Melbourne to Bluff was 1212 miles, 438 miles skorter tkan to Wellington. Tke distance from Sydney to Bluff was 1707 miles, 194 miles' skorter tkan to Auckland and 132 miles skorter tkan to Wellington. ,Tke route between Melbourne, Hobart and Bluff covered 1400 miles, and tkis was 250 miles skorter tkan tke' distance .to Auckland and 95 miles skorter tkan tke distance to Wellington. Tke xoutes to Bluff were skort, direct and convenient and would remove from botk Tasmania and tke Soutk Island of New Zealand tke kandieap of isolation, eaid Mr. Russell. Milford Sound could be used as a base, as before long it would be connected to Invercargill by ro:*!, Paterson Inlet in Stewaxt Island was considered by tke instructor . of the Southland Aero Club to be an ideal landing-base for flyihg-boats. ' Southland could offer several ports admirakly adapted for receiving tke large flying-boats wkick would be operated by the service. It was decided tkat the attention of ; the Minister in ckarge of Aviation, tke Hon. F. JoneE, skonld be drawn to tke snitability of tke landing-places mentioned and tke skorter distances involved.