AIR SERVICE OF EMPIRE.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 25, 30 January 1926, Page 9

AIR SERVICE OF EMPIRE.

ENGLAND TO AUSTRALIA. CARRIAGE OP PASSENGERS. LONDON, January 29. An article by Commander J. M. Kenworthy, Liberal M.P. for Kingston-upon-HuD, is published in the "Outlook," in which the writer urges the extension without delay to Rangoon and Australia of the air service to Egypt and Indija. Commander Kenworthy contends that there are no technical difficulties in the way of a weekly both-way service to Australia. It would, he says, cost less than £300,000 a year on a basis of 5/ per ton per mile. Sydney could be brought within five days of London by day and night flying, or within ten days by day flying only. There is not much future for a passenger service, says the writer, but the British, Indian and Australian Governments, by instituting a commercial service, would save a large sum ia cost of cablegrams, and a great advantage would be the quicker dispatch of commercial documents. The service could not be All Red. The existing European and Asian routes must be used, and thence the flight would be via the Dutch East Indies to Darwin. — (A. and N.Z. Cable.)