Hitch In Australian —U.S.
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Air Agreement
rERE will be indefinite delay in in augurating the trans-Pacific air services between Australia and San Francisco, according to Australian Air
Minister Drakeford, who returned to Australia at the end of June.
No multi-lateral air agreements had emerged from the Montreal conference whch began in May, and which Mr.
Drakeford attended.
He said that the Pan American ser vice was operating from San Francisco to Auckland on agreements made before the war; as far as he knew, Panair had not been licensed since the war to operate a service from the United States end.
Reciprocal landing rights were still be ing negotiated. The stumbling block ap pears to be the American monopoly of air traffic between San Francisco and Honolulu.
Bcpa Ltd.
IN the meantime the British Common wealth Pacific Airlines (the Austra lian, New Zealand and British Gov ernments) has been registered in Australia as a company. The following appeared in the “Weekly Trade Report” of July 5.
British Commonwealth Pacific Air
LINES. LIMITEr>—Reg. 24/6/46. Capital: £1,000,000 in 1,000 shares of £I,OOO each. Ob jects: To establish and operate air services, etc.
Subscribers: Arthur W. Coles, Leonard M. Isitt, Albert C. Joyce, James G. Barclay, Alexander D. S. Murray, William Taylor and William C.
Taylor (one share each). Reg. office: 44 Martin Place, Sydney.