EMPIRE AIR MAIL SERVICE
:♦ ' ■ INAUGURATION OF TRI-WESKLY SCHEDULE TO-MORROW LONDON, July 25. The Secretary of State for Air (Sir Kingsley Wood), the Post-master-General (Mr G. C. Tryon), the director of Imperial Airways (Sir John Reith), the High Commissioner for Australia (Mr S. M. Bruce), and the High Commissioner for New Zealand (Mr W. J. Jordan), will ceremoniously bid farewell the two flying-boats which will leave from Southampton on Thursday to inaugurate the tri-weekly air mail service to Australia. Specially stamped inscribed silk bags will contain letters from the King, the Prime Minister (Mr Chamberlain), and the Dominions Secretary (Lord Stanley) to the Gover-nor-General of Australia (Lord Gowrie), the Governor-General of New Zealand (Lord Galway), the Prime Minister of Australia (Mr J. A. Lyons), and the Prime Minister of New Zealand (Mr Savage).
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Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22464, 27 July 1938, Page 11
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