MR RAMSAY MACDONALD
FLIGHT TO SCOTLAND. (British Official Wireless!) Rugby, May 23. Mr Ramsay MacDonald, accompanied by Miss Ishbel MacDonald, to-day flew from London to Scotland as ordinary passengers in the Imperial Airways Liner City of Glasgow, which is inaugurating a new experimental week-end service between Croydon and the Scottish towns. There were ten other passengers. En route a halt was made at Manchester, where the Prime Minister inspected the Chat Moss aerodrome.
Mr MacDonald will at 9.30 to-morrow night introduce the special programme issued to all stations by the British Broadcasting Corporation in connection with the annual Empire Day celebrations. During the programme listeners will be given an impression in sound of a journey round the Empire. Visits will be paid to Canada,' Australia, Singapore, India, and South Africa and ships, trains, aeroplanes, wireless and other forms of Imperial communications will be represented. The experimental short wave Empire station, SSW, will also transmit the programme.
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Southland Times, Issue 21093, 27 May 1930, Page 7
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156MR RAMSAY MACDONALD Southland Times, Issue 21093, 27 May 1930, Page 7
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