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PACIFIC AIRLINECUPPER REACHES AUCKLAND New Service to be Inaugurated.AUCKLAND. Dec. If.—The Pan-Am-erlcan Airway* SUorsky flvmi boat Samoan Clipper, which left Honolulu early on Friday room In# on a final inspection pflight over the proposed regular Pacific route to Auckland, landed on Auckland harbour at 4 10 p m. today after an un-eventful flight. The machine'* flying Ume O wma just under SI hours. I ctThe Samoan Clipper, which was oclg- i T. Inally called the Hong Koog CUpper. la commanded by Captain E. Muslck. who waa In command of the initial survey ; flight It carries a crew of seven. Mr. E Yuravlch (chief of the foreign airline In- * .'pection branch of the United 8tales Air Commerce Bureau) was aboard to recheck the observation* made on the find flight. The machine will leave Auckland neat Wednesday, inaugurating a fortnightly service between Auckland and Honolulu and connecting there with the Pan-American services to San Pranciaco and the Orient Until the New Boeing pamencrr flying boats are ready, the Clipper win run a freight and mall service She will carry the first mall next week including Australian letters if they are 1 her* by Wednesday. The passenger ser- ! vice, which, it Is planned, win start about April, will be weekly.Captain Mustek said this evening that the purpose of this second flight over sn Important aerial trade route between America and New Zealand was to make a final surrey and Inspect the groundfaeflltks constructed at various pointsThat Important Mage wort had now been flnlabed. When the Clipper left New Zeal-and on Wednesday K would Inaugurate a regular air mall express service from New Zealand to America. Another Mage of the service would be inaugurated in due course with the larwe 71-peasepgvr transoceanic CUpper* now being built atSeattle One of the first of the** ships wssnow nearing completion and had been gfven the name of the South Seas CUpper. The new airway would be one of the important aenal trade route* in theCaptain Mustek added that the Imperial Airways was sending one of it* plane* rrom Australia to New Zealand on a similar to that Just CUpper. These . . - - ^tly considered, wouldbring reality to the long-planned programme. to link AoMrails with the rapidly-developing airways systems of the worldCaptain Mustek mid that the Samoan Clipper had met with perfect weather all the way from Honolulu to New Zealand.lppo rrt a*, av fc w SOC2V CHB* 3 3 2 2 L ? 3 - 3 2 * * m O * rr £ 2 P
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Perth West Australian
Perth, Western Australia, AU
Mon, Dec 27, 1937
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