PROPOSED AIR SERVICE

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 423, 3 May 1937, Page 6

PROPOSED AIR SERVICE

Study of Weather Conditions Press Association—Copyright. Auckland, May 2. The last member of the staff of PanAmerican Airways ait Auckland of the party which came to New Zealand from the United States laite last year, Mr W. T. Jarboe jnr., will leave for Honolulu by the Monterey to-morrow. The radio station a«t Auckland, of which Mr Jarboe has been in charge, will not be closed, however, as the compjny has engaged a Zealand operator, Mr K. Edwards, of Wellington, who will remain at the company’s temporary headquarters in New Zealand.

The operator has been engaged permanently. His duties in the immediate future will consist solely of handling meteorological information which is being forwarded to Pago Pago for use in conjunction with reports from various Pacific islands to enable the company’s meteorologists to make a detailed study of weather in the South Pacific Ocean. This' is a necessary preliminary to inaugurating any airservice. and is likely <to extend over several months. With the return of Mr Jarboe to the company’s operational headquarters at Alameda, California, /there will begin a series of conferences concerning the practicability of the proposed air services 1 to New Zealand and the presentation of information gathered in New Zealand and at other proposed ports of call along the route by various experts connected with the survey flight.