AIRMAIL SERVICES
Dutch Supremacy Over British LONDON, March 15. Drawing attention to tlie flying-boat services, Mr. W. R. I). Perkins (Conservative). in the House of Commons, said it made his blood boil to learn that Britain was being beaten to Singapore by the Dutch air liners. Two machines, tlie Albatross and Flamingo, were now delivering an eminently suitable and fast service to Australia, and enough should be ordered to beat the Dutchmen for carrying the mail. It did not affect a, passenger if it arrived at Singapore in five days or six . but letters were a different matter. The Air Minister, Sir Kingsley Wood, said that the separation of mails and passengers was among tlie basic problems of air services. “I hope to consider it in the coining year,” he said. “The first long-range laud planes are being developed and tlie desirability of supplementing tlie flying-boat service by fast land plane service over 2000-niile stages will receive consideration.”
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Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 146, 16 March 1939, Page 9
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158AIRMAIL SERVICES Dominion, Volume 32, Issue 146, 16 March 1939, Page 9
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