BY AIR TO AFRICA
COLONIES CONTRIBUTE TO SERVICE FINANCES ASSURED British Official Wireless Reed. 11.33 a.m. RUGBY, Thursday. Sir Samuel Hoare, secretary for Air, stated in the House of Commons that the Government of Southern Rhodesia had tendered its willingness to arrange for a contribution of £IO,OOO yearly for a period of five years toward the cost of the projected air service between this country and South Africa. The South African Government had undertaken to provide a substantial portion of the required subsidy, and offers to contribute had also been recived from the administrations of Sudan, Kenya, Tanganyika, and Uganda. As a result of the ready co-operation on the part of the administrations mentioned, the finances of the service were assured. Sir Samuel Hoare also stated that the airship RIOO was expected to be ready for her trial by about the end of May, and RlOl about the end of June.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/SUNAK19290503.2.84
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 653, 3 May 1929, Page 9
Word count
Tapeke kupu
151BY AIR TO AFRICA Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 653, 3 May 1929, Page 9
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Sun (Auckland). You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in