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MINISTER’S PROGRAMME FLYING TO CAPETOWN SURVEY OF NEW ROUTE. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, April 1. The- Air Minister, Sir Samuel Hoare, accompanied bv Air Vice-Marshal Sir Vyell Vyvyan and his private secretary, who are travelling as far as Egypt by the new England to India air service, arrived to ,scheduled time at Naples. . At Basle they transferred from tins huge Armstroug-Siddeley air liner to the night express lor Genoa, where they embarked 031 a British seaplane, reach ing Naples yesterday evening. General do Pinedo and other representative of the Italian uoioinmcnt greeted them. _ , TT On reaching Egypt Sir Samuel Hoare will fly along the projected air route to Capetown, travelling 800 miles daily and returning to Egypt to catch the air mail from India to London m tune tor the reassembly of Parliament on April 15. The first air mail liner from India will also carry Air Vice-Marshal Sir Geoffrey Salmond and Lord. Chetwyncl, vice-chairman of Imperial Airways, and his daughter. The- liner has readied Athens.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 3 April 1929, Page 5
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