FREIGHT BY AIR

Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 January 1939, Page 7

FREIGHT BY AIR

ACTIVITIES IN CANADA. WINNIPEG. The carrying of freight by civil aircrafts has increased very rapidly in Canada during the past four years and until recently Canada held the world record for the trans-shipment of freight by air. Recent reports, however, show that the Union of Soviet Russia handled 35,000 tons of freight in 1937 as compared with approximately 13,000 tons in Canada. The tonnage of freight carried by civil aircrafts in the United States that year was reported to amount to 3.000 tons.

The total amount of freight transported by air in Canada in 1931 was only 2,372.467 pounds. In the next two years the quantity about doubled, and in 1934 amounted to 14,441.179. or to over three times the 1933 quantity. In 1935 it increased to 17.615.910 pounds and in 1936 to 25,387.719 pounds. In 1937 a further gain was recorded, the total being 26,279.156. Mail carried under Canadian postal contracts increased from 570.461 pounds in 1931 to 1,323,584 in 1937 and. including United States mail carried in and mail not under postal contracts, to 1,450,473 pounds in 1937. Passenger traffic shows increases, but not at rates comparable with freight and mail increases. During 1937, 110,864 paying passengers were carried and 30,294 non-paying passengers, excluding students carried in light aeroplane club aircraft.