AIR MAILS
— THE FLYING BOAT SERVICE AUSTRALIA’S FIRST CLAIM ON SPACE. STATEMENT BY MINISTER. CANBERRA. June 16. “Australia’s air mails for England will have first call on space in the fly-ing-boats when the new Empire service is inaugurated next month,” said the Minister of Defence, Mr H. V. C. Thorby, today. He added that Qantas Empire Airways had contracted to carry all available Australian mails, and, so long as they fulfilled their obligation, they were entirely free to make contracts with other parties for the carriage of mail and other freight. The Minister said that, if the New Zealand Government wished to ship mails to Australia for transport by air to London, it would have to make its own agreement with the company, and carriage of those mails would be dependent upon the flying-boat’s capacity to take them after providing for all the Australian mails.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 June 1938, Page 7
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