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have to travel north by rail. Union Airways under their postal contract collected mail from the overnight Limited Express train at Palmerston and took it to the South Island and required no air link to Auckland. The board "caused perturbation" in the North Island by noting the most important trunk route would be between Palmerston North and Dunedin. Later newspapers produced articles about the working time saved by an Auckland businessman heading for Christchurch and travelling to Palmerston North by overnight train when compared with a flight originating in Auckland the following morning which would land him in Christchurch much later that day.
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between Palmerston North and Dunedin (calling at Blenheim and Christchurch) Union Steam formed Union Airways Limited keeping for itself 600 of the planned issue of 1,000 shares. The new Great Pacific Airways covered the rest of the North Island though, again, not Wellington and shared the South Island calls. There were strong protests from the Wellington resident Coordination Board member. Licence applications for other routes from other sponsors were firmly opposed by Union Steam.
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they will have valid reasons for their bookings. Shipping companies held similar waiting lists. The mail service across the Pacific had ended so letters now went through the Middle East. Trains were booked out and Union Airways reported it was unlikely to be able to provide a seat out of Auckland until early February.
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reported there were between 1,300 and 1,400 New Zealanders in Australia awaiting transport home, most of them servicemen and dependents. Between 700 and 800 people are registered in Auckland with Tasman Empire Airways as passengers for Australia. These people have obtained permits for this travel so
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Meanwhile, through the Transport Coordination Board, Union Airways with its commercially strong backing blocked and continued to block the other airline, Great Pacific, from landing at Palmerston North leaving the Gisborne-Hawkes Bay feeder airlines with a restricted service. Their passengers would
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of Auckland (together they were Great Pacific Airways); and New Zealand Airways of Dunedin. The facilities at Rongotai being inadequate it was proposed the service would operate between Auckland, Milson (Palmerston North), Blenheim, Christchurch and Dunedin. In May having won a first licence to fly
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in 1920 followed by a spell in advertising with Goldberg then J Inglis Wright. Clarke established Air Travel with Squadron Leader McGregor in 1929, New Zealand's first regular air service between main centres. The Government of New Zealand suggested selling NAC back to Union Airways in 1950 but
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Falla died suddenly in 1945. He was replaced by James Norman Greenland, general manager of Union Steamship since 1936. It was announced in August 1946 that the government had bought Union Airways as of 1 April 1946. Clarke remained acting general manager and was appointed general manager of the
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Transport Coordination Board was formed in 1933 under 1931's Transport Licensing Act. It was intended to limit entry to the transport industry to protect the heavy but unprofitable investment in the nation's railways then owned by its taxpayers. The board was closed in 1936.
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in parliament the Minister responded that while New Zealand Airways had talked of raising a large sum of new capital and replacing obsolete aircraft "the backing of Union Airways was very substantial". The decision had been made by the board said
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The general public seemed unaware that no other country had commercial flying services without government subsidy. Only in the United States were military and civil aviation clearly separated, though civil was still subsidised. For its
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airliners which could carry from ten to fourteen passengers together with ample mail and baggage space. Delivery took place in September and October and they entered service in December 1935 cruising at 145 to 150 miles per hour.
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received a greater subsidy per mile than proposed for the trunk route. The board had been directed to take into account the value of the usefulness of all the proposed airways facilities for auxiliary defence purposes.
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began business on 1 April 1947. The general manager of Union Airways took the same role in the new NAC. The aircraft, timetables and support services and most personnel were simply moved to the new operation.
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New Zealand Airways, operators of a scheduled service from Wellington to Blenheim, lost their licence to the route to Cook Strait Airways and were reduced to taxi work. In response to questions put by
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By the end of 1945 the government's intention to create a national airways corporation to monopolise civil aviation services had become The New Zealand National Airways Act.
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Cook Strait Airways was established in 1935. Flying from Wellington to Blenheim and Nelson. It was disestablished in 1939, after the outbreak of World War II.
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At the same time Union Airways let it be known they planned a further service to Australia which they considered a natural development for a shipping company.
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following a civic luncheon on the afternoon of 15 January 1936 and Karoro with Flight-Lieutenant A. G. Gerrand at the controls flew the first passengers to
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in August for service or, in emergency, air taxi work. It was to be fitted with the larger 6-cylinder 200 h.p. Gipsy engine used in the new DH86 aircraft.
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which took over on 31 March 1947 all Union Airways operations assets and facilities adding them to those taken from other local airlines.
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Miles M-3B Falcon Major ZK-AEI, Milson Airport. At that time NZ's fastest aeroplane Union Air intended it for service and taxi work
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In November and December 1935 the new aircraft were assembled in a new hangar at Wigram Aerodrome. Their names were reported to be
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The first scheduled flight was from Dunedin to Christchurch on Wednesday 15 January 1936 and on it were: the mayor of Dunedin,
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government's new National Airways Corporation on 29 November 1946. Clarke's career had been: Wellington manager
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and the West Coast of the South Island. Union Airways was instrumental in the establishment of
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was New Zealand's first major airline. It was founded in 1935 by local shipping giant
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single engined monoplane designed to carry a pilot and two passengers was bought in
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From 1937 Clarke and Falla had been planning Tasman Imperial Airways later known as
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One aircraft. Returned to the Royal New Zealand Air Force in 1946.
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All aircraft below are in National Airways Corporation livery
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Te Ara's article on The main trunk route of NZ transport
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Four aircraft. Impressed into military service with the
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Two aircraft. Impressed into military service with the
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bought all the shares in Union Airways, later forming
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20 February 1936. Pilot and Union Airways director,
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Union Airways: Mangere, Milson, Rongotai and Taieri
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Index


Milson
Mangere
Milson
Rongotai
Taieri
Secondary hubs
Palmerston North
Focus cities
Auckland
Wellington
Christchurch
Dunedin
Alliance
ANA
TEAL
Holding company#Parent company
Union Company
Dunedin
Norrie Falla

Milson
Union Company
Auckland
Dunedin
Gisborne
Australian National Airways
TEAL
Government of New Zealand
New Zealand National Airways Corporation

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