TASMAN AIR SERVICE
FINANCE MINISTER MAY BE FIRST PASSENGER. REASONS FOR NOT FLYING HOME. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, May 1. A jocular suggestion made by the chairman of the Auckland Harbour Board, Mr W. B. Darlow, that perhaps in two or three months’ time he would be able to welcome the Minister of Finance, Mr Nash, as the first passenger on the trans-Tasman air service was made into a genuine possibility when the Minister spoke later. The .comments were made al a farewell tendered to Mr Nash by the board. “It is possible .that the first trial flight on the Tasman air route other than that of the Centaurus might find a Minister of the Crown aboard,” Mr Nash said. “That is, of course, if I can get to England and back to Australia in time.”, Mr Nash mentioned that there were two reasons why he was not flying to England. One was that he had a great deal of work to do and that therefore it was more convenient for him to go by sea. The other was that he had a considerable mass of departmental papers and the weight restrictions of the airways had created a difficulty.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 May 1939, Page 4
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199TASMAN AIR SERVICE Wairarapa Times-Age, 2 May 1939, Page 4
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