TASMAN AIR SERVICE
PROPOSAL TO NEW ZEALAND ONE FLIGHT A WEEK. COMMONWEALTH'S ATTITUDE. By Telegraph—'Press Association—Copyright. MELBOURNE. January 30. The Minister of Air, Mr Fairbairn, has suggested to the New Zealand Government that the trans-Tasman air service begin immediately on a temporary wartime basis of one flight a week. Mr Fairbairn said he hoped to obtain a second flying boat, and if all went well the service would be extended twice weekly. The Commonwealth’s proposal was that the service should be operated with Union Airways, Quantas Airways and Empire Airways as the Australian agents. The service should be run with purely local, companies as the agents in Britain, Australia and New Zealand. Because of insufficient aircraft for a service on a hard-and-fast basis the Commonwealth saw no object in entering into a long-term agreement with a new company but if the other Governments wanted to establish a new company the Commonwealth would agree.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 31 January 1940, Page 5
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