AIR MAILS

Evening Star, Issue 22004, 13 April 1935, Page 15

AIR MAILS

SPEEOiNG UP ON BRITISH ROUTES Press Association— By Telegraph— CruyUght . ■ : LONDON, April 12. The Postmaster-General (Sir Kingsley "Wood), at a Newspaper Press Fund dipner, said that the Post Office contemplated in the next few months a redaction of the time schedule of air -mails, bringing Britain within two days \ of India, two days an’d a-half of East four days of Singapore, and . seven days of . Australia. NO IMMEDIATE ACCELERATION. ’ LONDON, April 12. (Received April 13, at 10.5 a.m.) i Aviation authorities do not interpret Sir Kingsley Wood’s statement as mean- ' ing any early drastic acceleration ot the Australian service. A seven-day schedule depends firstly on the provision of the fleet with new and faster • aircraft, which will not be ready before the end of 1936; secondly, the compler‘ tion of an Anglo-dominion financial ■agreement and large-scale development of Imperial routes. No passengers are booked for the opening of the Anglo-Australian passenger air service to-morrow, but in any event none are .acceptable owing to several intermediate sections of the route being previously fully booked up.