INFANTILE PARALYSIS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 May 1938, Page 7

INFANTILE PARALYSIS

EPIDEMIC ON THE WANE IN N.S.W. SYDNEY, May 10. The infantile paralysis epidemic is now on the wane in New South Wales. The number of cases from November to date is 623, compared with 463, the previous high figure reached in 19311932.

by the Prime Minister, the Rt Hon. M. J. Savage. “Words can hardly express one’s feelings at the loss of life in the unfortunate occurrence,” said Mr Savage. “The company concerned has been remarkably successful, running without accident up to today. Had there been a number of passengers aboard the air-liner the consequences might have been much more serious, but our sympathy goes out to the relattives of the two men.”

FINE RECORD ABOUT 26,500 PASSENGERS CARRIED WITHOUT MISHAP OF ANY KIND (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, May 11. Since the inception on January 15, 1936, of the first passenger service to be flown by Union Airways, Ltd., the company’s machines have conveyed approximately 26,500 passengers without a mishap of any kind. On that date the Palmerston North-Dunedin service was inaugurated with D.H. 86 express airliners. -The WellingtonAuckland service was opened on June 26, 1937, with three Lockheed Electra monoplanes. These machines have since carried approximately 8000 passengers without mishap. The total mileage covered by Union Airways’ planes since the first scheduled passenger flight in January, 1936, is approximately 1,100,000. The D.H. 86 machines operated on the route between Palmerston North and Dunedin are Kotuku, Karoro and Koromako. Three Lockheed Electras were purchased in 1936, and after a number of tests had been made over the proposed routes, the regular service was inaugurated on June 26 of the following year. Kotare (kingfisher), the,plane wrecked yesterday, made the inaugural flight from the southern terminal, and before its departure was christened at Rongotai by the mayor of Wellington, Mr T. C. A. Hislop. Civil aviation has made rapid progress in New Zealand, and seven regular routes are now being operated by four companies.

NEW TIME-TABLE OPERATION FROM TOMORROW (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, May 11. Union Airways announced yesterday that the usual services between Auckland and Wellington, and vice versa, will be flown today. As from tomorrow, however, there will be only one daily service each way. The 8.45 a.m. departure from Wellington and the noon departure from Auckland will be cancelled until further notice. Starting tomorrow, a Lockheed will leave Auckland at 8 a.m. daily and, flying via New Plymouth and Palmerston North, will carry passengers and mails to Wellington, being due at Rongotai at 11 a.m. The same plane is scheduled to leave Rongotai again at noon. It is due at Auckland at 2.30 p.m.