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Grey River Argus, 2 May 1931, Page 6

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SUBSIDY QUESTS. I — FOR MAIL SERVICES. ! (Aus. & N.Z. Cable Assn.) SINGAPORE, April 30. ■ Kingsford Smith told an interviewer that he knew nothing about the ' proposed air-mail between. Calcutta and Australia, conducted by his .Company, the Australian National Airways Limited. He said: “I wish it i were true, hut Dartwin to Singapore, is preferable 1 . Iti is quite impossible I wit hou t a sub sidy. ’ ’ CANBERRA, April 30. Answering a question, the Prime .Minister said that application had . been made by Imperial Airways Company for a mail subsidy between England and Australia. “I rteplied that there wag very little prospect of such subsidy being granted. | GREENLAND RESCUE EFFORT. | » STOCKHOLM, April 30. I Captain Ahrenberg has telegraphed from Bergen that it is impassible to start for Fairtue Island until the weather improves. He is proceeding to . Greenland to try and rescue Courtjauld. Stack Starts Again AND RETURNS (Aus. & N.Z. Cable Assn.) ( (Received May 1, a.t 7 p.m.) LONDON, May 1. | Stack and Chaplin left Lympne* at i 4.30 a.m., to-day fori Australia. LONDON, May I. ' Stack and Chaplin returned at 4.50 a.m. They had engine trouble. FAIRBAIRN’S FLIGHT RESUMED. DARWIN, May 1. Temporary repairs having been effected to their aeroplane. Fairbairn and Shenstone, who contemplated comjpleting the journey by boat, resumed ’ their flight southward from Darwin (this morning, leading for Sydney. FAST FLYING OVER IRELAND (Received May 1, at 9 p.m.) LONDON, April 30. Hawkes did another record-breaking flight from London to; Dublin in ninety i one mi’nutes. Thence he made an i aerial tour of the Irish Free State, occupying two hours.