EMPIRE AIR ROUTES.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVII, 10 April 1928, Page 8

EMPIRE AIR ROUTES.

SERVICE TO AUSTRALIA

IMPORTANT NEW AGREEMENT.

LONDON, March 26

The subsidy of £137,000 a. year payable to Imperial Airways Limited hasbeen extended to 1939, under a new agreement entered into by the Go'element, thus making the total subsidy for 11 years £1,507,000. It is considered that the security of tenure for 11 years brings the Anglo-Australian air mail route almost within sight. Favourable terms have been given to the directors, shareholders, and the management of Imperial Airways, while the long tenure will give substantial support to air routes to the Far East, and Australia. The choice of Delhi aS' the terminus of the line in India, stimulates India to establish internal feeder air mail lines and to extend the route to Calcutta- and Rangoon. The ground organisation for this has already been begun. The Commonwealth will organise its end immediate!v the other links are established. The opinion is growing that the complete internationalisation of air routes is the only isolation of the difficulties in the .wav of the London to Egypt section of the Empire air line. Several of the chief European Powers, as well as Persia, refuse to allow foreign aircraft to fly over their territory.