AIR MAIL PLANNED.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 2, 3 January 1931, Page 3

AIR MAIL PLANNED.

CANADA AMD CHINA.

UNITED STATES' RIVALRY.

- TEST FLIGHTS IN 1931. (From Our Own Correspondent.) VANCOUVER, December IS. Test flights that will establish tlie feasibility of air mail between Canada and China are to be made early next spring. The plan has been discussed at Ottawa at conferences between W. I. Glover, second assistant FostaiasterGeneral of the United States, and officials of the Canadian Postal Department. The visit of Mr. Glover reveals intense rivalry between Canada and the United •States in trans-ocean air services. It was very shortly after Canadian Airways was launched, that the U.S. Post Office Department announced its intention of establishing a transAtlantic service between the U.S.A. and Britain, a service which Mr. Glover claims would give Montreal and -Toronto a 24-hour service from boat landing at New York (in summer) and at Charleston, N.C. (in winter), and, a 36-hour service to Winnipeg. In other words, the United States, it is believed, is making a big bid to head off the Canadian Airways from getting the carriage of mail to and from Britain with the. aid of steamships. The air mail development in Western and Northern Canada through cooperation between Canada and the United States, however, lias nothing of rivalry in it, and will bring results early next year, and it is predicted that within 18 months there will be at least test air mail flights between the Pacific Coast and the Orient, via Yukon, Alaska and the Aleutian Islands.