EMPIRE AIR MAILS.
ATTITUDE OF AUSTRALIA. PROPOSALS NOT UNDERSTOOD. (United Press Association—Copyright) LONDON, February 10. With little chance of acceptance of Australia’s counter-proposals regarding Imperial air mails, the prospect of Britain pursuing her own independent services to Australia and Noav Zealand are increasingly canvassed. Captain Norman Macmillan, writing in “The Daily Mail,” says it appears that Australia has not fully understood tho proposals, for co-ordination of the two services—flying-boats for the trunk route and land ’planes for tlie inland service—appears to offer the best solution of the strategic requirements of Australian defence. Clearly the Empire cannot drop the scheme because it is not acceptable to Australia. Will Australia’s decision force New Zealand to forego tho benefits of the scheme ? If not, under Mr Parkhill’s proposal, letters Avill go outward at lid and homeward at Gd, thus producing a transport bugbear of empty return journeys.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 103, 12 February 1936, Page 6
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144EMPIRE AIR MAILS. Ashburton Guardian, Volume 56, Issue 103, 12 February 1936, Page 6
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