EMPIRE AIR SERVICES
VAST MAIL BUSINESS FUTURE OF AFRICAN LINK (British Official Wireless.) Reed. 2.30 p.m. RUGBY, June 30. Over 1,250,0001 b. cf mail matter, approximately 50,000,000. letters, are now being carried every three months by Imperial Airways’ air liners. The proposed agreement with Imperial Airway.", for the continued operation of the air service connecting Nigeria end the Gold Coast with the main Empire route to South Africa at Khartoum is published in a White Paper. The agreement, which expires today, is extended for six months, but will be subject to earlier termination within that period if the proposed corporation, for which provision is made in the British Overseas Airways Bill, now before Parliament, is established .before the cud of the year.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19979, 3 July 1939, Page 7
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122EMPIRE AIR SERVICES Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19979, 3 July 1939, Page 7
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