EMPIRE PRESS UNION

Hokitika Guardian, 13 February 1929, Page 5

EMPIRE PRESS UNION

A NOTABLE REMARK. (Receiver! this day at 12.25. p.m.) LONDON, Eel). 12. Tlie main note in Lord Aslor’s speech at the Empire Press Union annual meeting, \Vas their desire to make the 19:10 Conference worthy of the Union’s increased prestige. .Sir Donald, in moving the annual report, hailed the wireless merger as a triumph tar the Union. Ala.'"or Nicholson (Ceylon) disclosed that the Imperial Airways decided to accelerate the Australian mails. Tin did not justify an airline from Bombay to Ceylon, wherefrom the other .revenue wa,s inadequate, and so abandoning the idea. He np|X'aled to the Council to urge the Indian and Cey,ou

Government to provide this line o *-’• National and Inter-Imperial grounds. Sir Brittan eniphas'ised tin* need for Britain providng vucli airlines, including to the East Indies, where otherwise. the Americans would step in. He was proud of introducing, on Thursday. to the Chancellor and PostmasterGeneral. the strongest Empire deputation vet to urge the penny postage. .Mr Theodore Kink said Australia could in effect he brought halfway, to England hv proper air routes. Certainly there were much finer mail ships nowadays, hut the fares were double, and the journey took a day longer than when the Union was formed. Australia had vet to he satisfied the wireless merger meant- an adequate reduction of the scale of charges and the development of the services. He had experience o! iWg corporations and was convinced the Union should never cease striving to achieve a cheapening of the rates and improved facilities. The meeting remitted to the Conned the matter of air routes. f,nrd Burnham was re-elected I resident.