TASMAN AIR SERVICE.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 407, 14 April 1937, Page 6

TASMAN AIR SERVICE.

CERTAIN PROPOSALS AGREED TO. Statement by Hon. W. Nash. Press Association —Copyright. Wellington. April 13. The folowing statement on the traiis-Tasman air tervice was issued in London yesterday on behalf of the Government by the Minister of Fin.. ■ ance, Hon. W. Nash: '‘At 1 , the aviation conference lipid ' at Wellington in September between I representative's of the Governments of the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand, certain proposals providing for cb.operation and joint responsibility in the institution of a trans-Tasman air service were agreed upon by Jhe delegates for submission to and ratification by the re- .* p»cfive Governments. So far tine Australian Government has not approved of these proposals dn th.eii’ entirety. “At no stage during the discae, sions that led to the formulation of these proposals was it intimated on bshalf of the British Government ■ hat, failing an agreement being j reached, the Government would an* |.honse Imperial Airways to operatte •a service, nor has the British Government at any time claimed the j right to determine on what term's or •by what agency the service wbuld ; be operated.’’