ALL MAILS BY AIR
AUSTRALIAN PROJECT POST OFFICE PLANES (9 a.m.) CANBERRA, March 26. The Federal Government is examining the possibility of establishing its own special air services for the carriage of mails in Australia. The Postmaster-General, Senator D. Cameron, said that departmental officers were in Europe and America investigating the practicability of a complete change-over to the carriage of all letters internally at the present surface rate of 2Jd for 2oz. He added that the Government had constitutional power to run an inter-State air mail service so long as passengers were not carried. In his opinion the time would come when the Postmaster-General’s department would have to control its own aircraft just as it controlled its own trucks and vans.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22289, 26 March 1947, Page 5
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