AIR SERVICES

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 447, 1 June 1937, Page 6

AIR SERVICES

LINK WITH U.S.A. Importance Of New Zealand Press Association —Copyright. AucklamL May 31. No doubt that New Zealand and Australia will soon be linked with the United States and Canada is entertained by Mr W. T. Miller, superintendent ot airways of the United States Bureau of Commerce, who was a through passenger for San Francisco by the Mariposa after making an innestigation into the possibilities of regular commercial and mail air services across the Pacific.

As a result of his investigations in New Zealand and Australia he is convinced that it will not be long before the recent survey flight across the Pacific by the Pan-American Airways clipper is succeeded by “time-table” crossings.

Suggestions have been made that New Zealand might possibly be left out of the route of a regular mail and passenger air service, but Mr Miller said he considered New Zealand was a most important link. Canada would also have to be included. The United States and Canada not only thought as one country, but were also working as one country, and such an air service as he envisaged would be from “Australasia and North America.”

“One of the main objects of my visit,” said Mr Miller, “was to ascertain as far as possible how much business would be offering foi- such a service across the Pacific, and I have come to the conclusion that it is only going to be a very short time before New Zealand, Australia, and America are going to be linked up with a fast passenger and mail service by air.

“Whether it will be sponsored from America or the Antipodes is not for me to say, but justification for such a service is there. My view is that the Governments of the countries concerned will have to get together and come to some suitable arrangement. Every detail will have to b 0 worked out before any service can be established.”

It might easily be, he said, that there would be sufficient encouragsment for more than one company to run a service, but nothing positive had yet been arrived at, and the whole thing was a matter for the respective Governments, If it was decided to assist an air service no doubt reciprocal agreement would have to be drawn up.