AIR MAIL COSTS

Hokitika Guardian, 28 September 1932, Page 8

AIR MAIL COSTS

BIG ITEM IN AUSTRALIA MELBOURNE, September 19. “Our affi' mail costs us £20,000 a ton; that is taken from the official figures of the - Air Department,” said. Major H. T, Shaw at a meeting of the Air Convention Committee, which was held in Melbourne. “It costs £IO,OOO a year to-?carry five tons. Since the inception . tons 2cwt has been car-. ried, and the money, spent- has been approximately £1,000,000. The secretary, Flight-Lieutenant W. R. Garrett, remarked that on certain lines in Queensland the cost was now £7 a lb. Each time a passenger put his foot in an aeroplane there was a cost of £lO to the taxpayer. On the air mail between Adelaide and Perth the fare was the same as the train, because £61,000 was paid in subsidy. TJve chairman, Captain E. G. Roberts: The:, operating expenses of the company are more than paid by the subsidy. The public does not bother about, it, so it just goes on. The secretary said that.no one in the Department .had actual experience ol commercial aviation. Mileage of the aif routes, compared with .population was, quoted, instead of the number of airqraft in operation and the number of pilots and engineers in employment. Major , ShaW:, For the £1,000,000 spent they have given us 61 aircraft, 28 pilots and 30. mechanics. . ' Other members expressed the opinion that control of civil aviation should never have - been. vested in the Defence Department ;’.that this was like putting mail ships under control of the Navy. A Department of Transport was needed. , • ~;r - -

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