EMPIRE AIR MAILS

Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 148, 25 June 1938, Page 10

EMPIRE AIR MAILS

START ON JULY 28

SERVICE TO AUSTRALIA

It was announced recently that the last section of the flying-boat route between England and Australia would be inaugurated on July 2, when the Qantas Empire flying-boat would leave Singapore for Sydney, arriving there on July 5. The intention then was that in the preliminary flights only surcharged mail would be carried, but the Prime Minister (the Rt. Hon. M. J. Savage) said today that the full Empire air-mail service to Australia, carrying all letters at l|d per half-ounce, would commence by flying-boat from Southampton at 11 a.m. on Thursday, July 28. From that date flying-boats of Imperial Airways and Qantas Empire Airways would be traversing the whole route between Southampton and Sydney and would be carrying New Zealand mail. The first flying-boat carrying mail on the "all-up" basis of lid per half-ounce is expected to leave Sydney on August 9. This will mean that all mail for the United Kingdom and Empire points posted after the regular dispatch by the R.M.S. Aorangi leaving Auckland on July 12 next will be dispatched via Sydney and placed on the Empire flying boats. ALL DETAIL SETTLED

ONLY RATIFICATION NEEDED

(Received June 25, 10.40 a.m.)

SYDNEY, This Day.

The Minister of Defence (Mr. H. V. C. Thorby) stated that every detail of the agreements between the contracting parties in the flying-boat mail service between England and Australia had been settled and that it only remained for the agreements to be ratified by Parliament.