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EMPIRE AIR MAIL
AUSTRALIAN SERVICE
CANBERRA, June 29.
.Speaking on the second reading of the Bill to ratify and authorise airmail agreements with the United Kingdom Government, Mr. H. V. C. Thorby, Minister (k Defence, furnished details today of the Empire air-mail flyingboat service. ' He said that all mail posted inside Australia .would carry a surcharge of 3d for each half punce, which is Is Id less than the present rate. The whole of the incoming air mail would be delivered in) each capital city on the second afternooA after the arrival of the flying-boats from Darwin. No night flying would be necessary. The serVlce between Southampton and' Sydniy in its initial stages would occupy nine and a half days and would be progressively reduced to seven ana a hall days. The Australian Government would control the section between Singapore ■ and Sydney.
COST TO AUSTRALIA
£130,000 A YEAR
(Received June 30, 11.45- a.m.)
. CANBERRA,' THis' Day. The Minister of Defences announced thikt the Federal Government-intended to spend up to £220,000 a year on airmail sefvices. The Empire flying-boat service will cost £130,000 a year, and subsidies to internal services nearly £90,000. f •
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Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 152, 30 June 1938, Page 9
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