AIR MAILS
SLOWNESS CAUSES IMPATIENCE.
LONDON, February 16
Impatience at the slowness with which air mail services are being developed lias been expressed frequently of late. “We still take -seven days to get out mails to India by air, whereas fast aeroplanes, flying night and day, could cover the distance in two or, at the most, three days. The air mail to Australia is likely to take six'ten days, whereas it could be done comfortably in nine,” it is said.
“It is a matter of money, organisation, and building fast carriers. The idea that mails and passengers must lie carried together is handicapping the Post Office. Speed is all important in the ail'-—with the present standard of comfort, it is the only excuse for aeroplanes. The greater the discomfort, the greater the speed must be to make up for it. It is sad to record that thirteen years after the war the average speed of a mail or passenger aeroplane is very little greater than that of the war :ierop!;anes, shat fog still 'renders a London-to-Manchester service impracticable, or that hours are wasted in reaching an aerodrome by road,”
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Hokitika Guardian, 25 February 1933, Page 6
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189AIR MAILS Hokitika Guardian, 25 February 1933, Page 6
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