CIVILIAN AIR SERVICE
El's GLAN D - AUSTRALIA LINK WITH DOMINION (!) a.m.) MELBOURNE. Jan. (i. A daily air service lor civilian passengers net ween Australia ancl England will probably be running within a. lew weeks. Jlie service will be operated with Avro-York aircraft by die British Overseas Airways Corporation from England to Colombo, ai.a by Quotas Empire Airways from C ilombo to Australia. For the Australian end of the service, the United Eingclom Government has made a\a liable several Lancaster transport aircraft. Perth will be the first landfall in Australia on the Englanci-Australia ri.n. but it is likcl/ Mat the ser.'iee vvkl go through to Sidney, where it wot nnk up with the Tasman Airways set vice bet w een Australia ;r d New Zealand. This new service is not connected with tiiat now operated octween England and Australia by wav of the United States and New Soaiand by the R.A.F. Transport Command ior war purposes.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 21606, 8 January 1945, Page 6
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