TASMAN AIR SERVICE
PREPARATIONS UNDER WAY. EMERGENCY LANDING AREAS SELECTED. (By Telcijrnph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND. March 8. Though no official advice of the inauguration of the Tasman air service has been received by Tasman Empire Airways. Limited, in Auckland, the routine preparations begun when the base was established arc being continued to schedule. The flying-boat Aotearoa landed on Kaipara Harbour for the third time this week when a site at Aotea was selected as an emergency alighting area. Another area had been chosen earlier at Cornwallis, on the Manukau Harbour, and both are to be buoyed by the Public Works Department. IVleanwhiel the company continues to be inundated with inquiries from prospective passengers but so far it has not been able to accept one of the many bookings sought because of lack of definite information concerning the service. Both men and women residents of various parts of Now Zealand have been among the applicants and an inquiry was also received on behalf of a group of It) business men who wished to attend a conference in Sydney. The second machine likely to be released from Britain for the Tasman service, the Awarua. will be flown to Auckland by Captain Oscar Garden. If present plans are unaltered he will have with him First Officer Griffiths and Radio Operator G. W. Cussans, who flew from England to Auckland! with Captain J. W. Burgess in the! Aotearoa and later returned, in addition to the second officer and engineer and probably a steward. Both the Aotearoa and the Awarua will be based in Auckland.
An announcement that the Governments of the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand had agreed to the start of the trans-Tasman air service •on the basis of one trip to and from Australia each week) in April, when a flight would be made from Auckland to Sydney and back by the Aotearoa. was made on Thursday by the Prime Minister. Mr. Savage. He said the second flying-boat for the service—the Awarua —was expected io be in New Zealand in the very near future,
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 9 March 1940, Page 6
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