AIR PASSENGERS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 156, 3 July 1937, Page 20

AIR PASSENGERS.

LORD EUBANK'S PLEA.

DOMINION CO-OPERATION. (Special.—By Air Mail.) LONDON, June 12. Lord Elibank wants more people to travel by air between the United Kingdom and Australia, New Zealand and the other Dominions. Urging the need for Empire passenger air services to be subsidised he lias written to "The Times":— "With the rapidly changing economic and political conditions everywhere and the continuous growth of the Dominion nations and of their nationalistic! instincts it becomes daily of greater importance that the people of the Dominions and those of the Mother Country should be kept in close touch with each other.. Personal contact through personal visits made in quick and easy circumstances by influential people in the political and administrative world and by business people seekinjr opportunities for trade expansion, will effect this better than any other means. Empire air mails are directly subsidised; why not, therefore, extend this policy to Empire passenger air fares, say, for a period of five years, until the degree of utilisation of these services renders subsidies unnecessary? An air passenger service, for instance, from the United Kingdom to Australia and -New Zealand with cheap fares would, I am sure, lead to many people taking the journey both ways." °