AIR MAIL PLANS
STATEMENT BY FEDERAL MINISTER SOUTHAMPTON TO SYDNEY IN 9J DAYS. SAVING OF TWO DAYS LATER. CANBERRA, June 29. ~ Speaking in the. second reading of the bill to ratify and authorise air mail agreements with the United Kingdom Government, Mr H. V. C. Thorby, Minister of Defence, furnished details today of the Empire air mail flyingboat service. He said that all mail posted inside Australia would carry a surcharge of threepence for each half ounce. The whole of the incoming air mail would be delivered in each capital city on the second afternoon after the arrival of the flying-boats from Darwin. No night flying would be necessary. The service between Southampton and Sydney in its initial stages would occupy nine and a half days and would be progressively reduced to seven and a half days. The Australian Government would control the section between Singapore and Sydney.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 June 1938, Page 9
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148AIR MAIL PLANS Wairarapa Times-Age, 30 June 1938, Page 9
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