PACIFIC AIR SERVICE

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 410, 17 April 1937, Page 5

PACIFIC AIR SERVICE

ESTIMATION OF POSSIBLE TRAFFIC. Visit By United States Official Press Association—Copyright. Auckland, April 17. Confidence that an ocean airway across the Pacific was practicable and that it was only a matter of time before it was established was expressed by, Mr. William T. Miller, of the United States Bureau of Air Commerce, Washington, who arrived from San Francisco by the Monterey. Mr. Miller will spend some time in New Zealand obtaining an estimate of possible traffic on the projected ocean airway and will then visit Australia on a similar mission. A prominent part in the preliminary work for the extension of aviation in the Pacific has been played by Mr. Milier, who is a former United States Navy pilot and regularly flies departmental machines on business trips in the United States. He has made several cruises in the United States cutter Itasca, visiting Howland, Baker, Jarvis and Palmyra Islands, Kingman Reef and Pago Pago. Although he could not say definitely whether or not the results of the recent survey flight of the Sikorsky clipper were sufficiently encouraging to prompt Pan-American Airways to decide to inaugurate the proposed service between Honolulu and Auckland, Mr. Miller said a definite statement on this matter might be expected in the near future. He considered the report he would make when his tour was completed would have some influence on the future of the service.