TEAL to Operate
p. 13 · Read in the full issue
NZ-Suva Service
IT is expected that Tasman Airways will shortly take over the operation of the Auckland-Suva flying-boat service that is now run by the New Zea land National Airways Corporation.
The change-over is expected to take place on April 4. Mr. G. N. Roberts, general-manager of TEAL has been in Suva making the necessary arrange ments.
NAC run the service with a con verted Sunderland, Takitimu, which comes up for its annual survey for air worthiness in April. It will be three months out of service. TEAL will use Solents on the service. This will reduce the crossing between Auckland and Suva to 6i hours.
In the meantime progress is being made with TEAL’s £250,000 building pro gramme at Mechanic’s Bay, Auckland.
New buildings under construction, or planned, are workshops, sound-proof engine testing rooms, hangars, instru ment repair shops, etc.
Some changes will be made in the time-table for the Suva-Labasa service after TEAL take over on April 4. The aircraft will leave Laucala Bay at 9 a.m. on Tuesday arriving at Malau at 9.45 a.m. She will leave Malau again for Suva at noone, arriving at Laucala Bay at about 12.45 p.m.