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IMPERIAL AIRWAYS

LONDON-BYDNEY BERVICE FLYING BOATS PROPOSED * d (fly Telegrapn.—Press Association) y AUCKLAND, Monday. Acceleration of the arrangements for the Initiation of the trans-Tasman air service may result from the visit to New Zealand of Mr A. E. Rudder, Australian representative of Imperial Airways, who arrived on the Aorangi from Sydney to-day. It is likely that he will have conversations with representatives of the Government. Mr Rudder declined to say anything concerning the proposed trans-Tasman link but announced that an Empire service from London to Sydney to be operated by flying boats was expected to commence before the end of July. The boats would not follow the present plane service route from Darwin to Brisbane but would take the coast line from the Gulf of Carpentaria. A feature of the service would be that the passengers would not have to transfer from one flying boat to another as each boat would complete a full journey London to Sydney and vice versa. Three services weekly will be carried out, occupying ten days each way, and later when the base equipment was completed, night flying would cut the journey down to seven days-

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Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20499, 16 May 1938, Page 8

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IMPERIAL AIRWAYS Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20499, 16 May 1938, Page 8

IMPERIAL AIRWAYS Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20499, 16 May 1938, Page 8

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