STATE THE HINDER

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 222, 19 September 1930, Page 7

STATE THE HINDER

Lack of Subsidy Retards Air

Mail Services.

EX-MINISTER'S COMPLAINT.

(Received 12 noon.)

LONDON, September 18.

"There is no technical reason why air mails should not be delivered in India in 30 or 40, hours, from England," said Sir Samuel Hoare, Air-Minister in the Tory Government. "Air Force machines can move at 180 miles, an hour, and there is no reason why similar 'planes should not be used for mails instead! of the omnibus machines which, also carrying passengers*, and freights, are obliged to stop every 300 miles. .

< "Up to the ;preseht the British' .Post, Office has shqwn itself to be the blackest reactionary in all matters in connection. With tb% air, "even to -the point of ref.us-, ing to. strike an air stamp. No civil air service in the world is yet self-support-ing, and our Continental . rivals are receiving 70 per cent of their total; cost' in Government subsidies. "The British air lines are neareri to becoming self-supporting than are those of the United States, Germany, France and Italy, and Britain has an unbeaten record for safety, and punctuality."