COST OF AIR MAIL
COMMONWEALTH SUBSIDY DISCONTINUED £4 TO SEND A LETTER CANBERRA, Thursday. The Federal Government has decided to discontinue its subsidy of £28,000 a year to the Larkin Aircraft Supply, Ltd., for the air mail services between Melbourne and Adelaide and Cootamundra, Mildura and Broken Hill, on the grounds mentioned in the Auditor-General’s report, which revealed the cost to he too heavy. The subsidies to the Queensland and Western Australian air services are to be continued. Captain Larkin, managing director of the company, says it will probably have to wind up, dismiss 100 employees, and close down its large aircraft works. The subsidy paid by the Government for one service represents £4 a letter; that paid to another, 10s; and one to a third service, 2s a letter. The official claims that the cost is not justified.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 921, 14 March 1930, Page 9
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139COST OF AIR MAIL Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 921, 14 March 1930, Page 9
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