ARRIVAL IN SYDNEY
FIRST ENGLISH AIR MAIL
ERA IN COMMUNICATION
.SYDNEY, 29th April. The first English air mail arrived in Sydney in the air-liner Southern Sun to-day. The occasion opens a new era in Imperial communications, the trip having occupied 25 days. The Melbourne portion of the mail was transferred to the Southern Star, which is expected to.arrive in that city I this evening. With the arrival of the air mails, which event was marked by an interesting official ceremony at the Mascot aerodrome, the evening Press here has printed a series of splendid pictures of aeroplane activity at Darwin and Koepang; also the badly-damaged City of Cairo, and a group of photographs showing the pilots of the ill-fated air liner, Dutch officials, natives, and the inhospitable scene of the crash at Koepang. "The Sun" also publishes an epitome of news from London papers of the date of the City of Cairo's depar-, ture on 4th April for Australia. One itenv relates to the purchase by Queen Mary of an attractive painting of St. John's, Westminster, by J f . H. Young, who is described as a former member of the staff of the New Zealand Press Association in Sydney.
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 100, 30 April 1931, Page 11
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199ARRIVAL IN SYDNEY Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 100, 30 April 1931, Page 11
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