CROYDON VEILED BY FOG

Press, Volume LXXI, Issue 21386, 31 January 1935, Page 11

CROYDON VEILED BY FOG

AIR MAIL DELEGATES LEAVE BY TRAIN LONDON, January 29. Croydon aerodrome is enveloped in dense fog, making flying impossible. Mr Frank Bartram and his party, who are flying to Australia to inspect aerodromes on the Empire air mail route, are entraining at London for Brindisi, and will start their journey by air from there. The delegates left within a lew hours of the revelation of their mission. IMPROVEMENTS TO EMPIRE SERVICE DELEGATES TO INVESTIGATE REVENUE LONDON, January 29. The Australian Press Association understands that the principal object of Sir Frederick Williamson (Director of Postal Services') and Sir Edward Campbell (parliamentary private secretary to the Post-master-General), on their Empire air service mission, will be to learn the financial extent to which the Dominions and colonies would be prepared to co-operate in a scheme to introduce a flat rate for Empirewide air mail services of lid a half ounce. It is pointed out that Great Britain, while willing to proceed on that basis as soon as is practicable, cannot shoulder the full burden, as unless outward and homewardbound mails were charged at a comparable rate, homeward-bound air liners would not be sufficiently loaded to justify the heavy expense of the scheme.