PACIFIC AIRWAYS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVIII, Issue 52, 29 January 1938, Page 14

PACIFIC AIRWAYS.

PART PLAYED BY BRITAIN. NEED FOR EARLY ACTION. LONDON, Jan. 5. The inauguration of an air mail service between New Zealand and the United States was the subject of comment by the Daily Mail in a leading article. The hope was expressed for co-operation between American and British air lines operating in the Pacific.

“When Britain’s Empire service joins New Zealand and Australia across the Tasman Sea, the world will be completely spanned by air, and negotiations between the home and New Zealand Governments to create this last link should be hastened,” it was stated. “Once it is Jorged, letters from Britain to New Zealand could be carried in eight and a-lialf days—the same as mails from Britain will take via this new Pan-American Pacific route.

“America’s design in ‘establishing a clipper terminus at Auckland is to connect with the Australiia-India-Europe-British Isles service of mails. The granting of a. base to the United States in New Zealand will almostly certainly mean that, when Britain’s projected air service from the southern Dominions to San Francisco is undertaken —and ultimately a route from Australia to Canada —landing facilities at America’s mid-ocean base 6 will be given. “There is every reason to hope that the co-operation between Britain and the United States in the Atlantic mail service, which is to start.in the spring, will find a counterpart in the Pacific. Britain must bestir herself to gain a rightful share of the communication a across this immense ocean, which washes the shores of the three great British Dominions.”