EMPIRE AIR MAILS

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 112, 28 May 1937, Page 7

EMPIRE AIR MAILS

Oritish UiPdttl Wtrfleea.)

Fifteen-Year Plan Annonnced SUBSIDIES £9,000,000

BUGBY, May 26, A iifteea years ' scheme of Empiro air maiis |s outliped in a White Paper , which reveals thafc und§r the projected agreement bdtween the GovermIieilt and Imperial Airways eubsidies are payable on a decreaging ncale and will aggregate £9,000,000, but will be subjected fo varioua adjustments. Provision- is njade for nine eervioes weekly to and from Egypt, flve to and from Jndift/ three each to and from East Africa and: fha gtraits Settlements, and two eaeh tp and from South Africa and Australia. The scheme is confidently expected to ensure the due maintenance of British prestige in world air frangpOTt. It wjll , also represent a strikihg developmest in .tbe form of long-distapee carriago of first-class mails by air at a flat post- ■ age charge of l$d per half-ounee for letters and a penny for postcards which for cheapness has never been approached anywhere ih the world. ' Both flying-boat and land 'plane sqt* vicea wUl opqrate from England. ,The aircraft will have a maximum speed of about 200 m.p.h, and a commerciftl pay load Of roughly three and a-quarter : toiis. It is gtipuloted that they shall be xeplaced after not more than sevqn years by improved craft and Imperial AirWays will be required to undertake to carry all first-class mail between the participating countries which in the provisional }i?t numbor 28. The Government will prpvide free aerodromee and landing areas in British territory and in Egypt, the Sudan ani Iraq.