AIR MAID ESSENTIALS

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 95, 16 January 1935, Page 8

AIR MAID ESSENTIALS

For a really great Imperial air-mail scheme, two things, declares the British Postmaster-General, arc essential, much greater frequency in mail services, and a cheap, flat, Empire postal rate. Sir Kingsley Wood looks forward to the day when, with the co-operation of the Dominions concerned, a correspondent in England may have a letter sent half-way round the globe within a week fox’ 1-ld. The present air-mail postage rates are so high that the use of this new medium of communication can only be justified by the possession of means or the press of urgency. Granted that a flat rate of lid. an ounce would enormously add to the volume of mail matter to be transmitted by the air services, is it not obvious that this very fact would justify an increase in theii’ frequency? Progressive business enterprise bases its hopes of expansion on turnover, and the volume of turnover depends on the price of the commodity. Six' Kingsley Wood is an exceptional Minister. He declines to be trammelled by tradition or hamstrung by, departmental officials, and up to the present has carried his convictions to a triumphant issue. In this matter of Imperial air-mail services, he is on sound and progressive lines, and he need have no fear of the results.