KINGSFORD SMITH
IMPERIAL POSTMAX 111 S OPINION OK AKYAJS “WORST PLACE IN WORLD' RACK IN AUSTRALIA (Aust. and N.Z. Cable) Darwin, A lay 11. The So-u them Cross arrived at 2.10 oh lock this after noun with fifteen hags of mail, also passengers. Air-Commodore Kingslo.rd Smith decribes Akyah as the ‘worst place ill Lh<* world,” but the message does not state i:i what respect. lie says that Darwin is a paradise compared with either Akyah or Koopnng. The Southern Cross, aJ.o> another plane in charge of Pilot Tapp, sent from BrLbano t«- pick up ;hc overseas mails, will resume the Jlight to Brisbane at daybreak. Akvab is a leading paid c f Burma, with a population of nearly -10,000. about a third of win‘in are Moliammcda.li and Hindu labourers, many working in the rice mills.
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Feilding Star, Volume 8, Issue 2427, 12 May 1931, Page 7
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