Teal Not On Suva

Service Yet

TASMAN Empire Airways, Ltd., was not able to take over the operation of the Auckland-Suva flying-boat ser vice from NZ National Airways Corpoa tion on April 4, as was orignnlly anticipated. The date for taking over has now been moved on, provisionally, until early June.

Postponement is said to be due to d slays in delivery of equipment which would have allowed the company to continue with its night flights between Auckland and Syd ney (which operated for the recent summer). TEAL’S trans-Tasman service is now back on a daytime schedule and this has complicated maintenance, and makes it difficult for the company to provide aircraft for the Auckland -Fiji service.

It is hoped that all difficulties will be ironed out by June 1.