AIR PORTS.

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 109, 10 May 1928, Page 7

AIR PORTS.

TO SPEED UP MAILS. Trans-Atlantic Developments Under View. BRITAIN'S "ALL-METAL" POLICY (British Official Wireless.) (Received 12 noon.) l-RUGBY, May 9. The Minister for Air, Sir Samuel Hoare, was asked in the House of Commons if Jie had under sympathetic observation the movements of Ireland and Canada to follow up the trans-Atlantic air flight of Major Fitzmaunce and his comrades by establishing air ports in Ireland on the one hand and at the entrance of the St. Lawrence on the other for the collection and distribution of transAtlantic sea-borne mails. Sir Samuel Hoare said the establishment of air ports in the Irish Free State was a matter for the Government concerned. He could promise that the matter of the employment of aircraft for the development of the trans-Atlantic mail service would receive sympathetic consideration and co-operation of the Post-maser-General and himself. The Minister stated that six types of all-metal machines would be used in the British air service by the end of this year. The general policy of the Air Ministry was to push on with the development of all-metal machines. We were substantially in advance of any other country in this matter. He hoped in the course of the current year that the airships RIOO and RlOl would be flying. 1 !