TASMAN AIR MAILS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 May 1938, Page 8

TASMAN AIR MAILS

FEDERAL MINISTER REPLIES TO MR SAVAGE SAYS DOMINION IS CAUSING DELAY DIFFICULTY OVER PROPOSED CONFERENCE (Recd This Day, 10.20 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. The Federal Minister for Defence, the Hon H. V. C. Thorby, stated that the attitude of New Zealand to the proposed Tasman air mail service had made further negotiations with the British Government necessary and the service would probably not commence until the end of the year.

Mr Thorby was replying to a denial by Mr Savage that the New Zealand Government had raised difficulties in connection with the proposed Tasman air service He said that the New Zealand Government had raised certain points that did not come within the scope of the agreement reached at a conference held in Wellington last year. “I am not able to disclose what those points are, but the position now is the same as it was when the conference took place at Wellington,” Mr Thorby added The New Zealand Government had asked that the conference which he had announced some weeks ago would be held in Sydney, to discuss details of the service, should be held in New Zealand. The Fed’eral Ministry believed that the conference should be held here, as representatives of both Australian and British interests were in Sydney, and it would be more convenient for them to meet here than in New Zealand. No date had yet been fixed for this conference.