AIR SERVICE

Hokitika Guardian, 21 October 1932, Page 2

AIR SERVICE

jj A PROPOSAL REFUSED. |l A cable earlier in the week stated phat the offer of the Dutch Airways in with an air mail service to Australia had been declined, j ;The Royal Dutch Airways offered to their services from Batavia to i?l)arwin, or to carry the British-Austra-p|an mails from Batavia to either Ka"iachi or direct to London. Three AusI’ftjralian aviation companies have submitted to the Federal Government a jjpombined scheme for the l'eorganisation ,’<)f internal air services within the Com■|jh on wealth, and an extension from I'Syyndham, or Darwin, to link with Im|nerial Airways’ services to India. This goffer does not involve a subsidy greater fthan the amount already paid to sjtralian companies for internal services. *. Mr F. H. Stewart, chairman of directors of Australian National Airways, has explained that the present subsidies paid to air services operating companies in Australia amountied, in round figures, to £95,000 per aniinim. The revenue received by the [Government ’from those ' services to al>out £IO,OOO per anijnum, leaving'tlie net coat to the Government £8.5,000 per annum. The subsidised services at present in existence called for just over 500,000 miles tof flying per annum. Under the combined Australian companies’ present proposal over 1,000,000 miles per annum would be flown, whilst tjie estimated net c< st to the Government