CAPE TO CAIRO
NEW AIR-MAIL ENTERPRISE. BEGINNING IN FEBRUARY. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, Dec. 17. Replying to a, question in the House of Commons, the Under-Secretary for Air, Mr Frederick Montague, stated that negotiations were completed for a. regular air-mail route from Cairo to the Cape. The northern section probably would 1 begin to operate in February. The Oairo-Cape airway is heralded in commercial air circles as. an outstanding enterprise, and the linking with the Indian air-mail service will reduce the transit time between London and Cape Town, to eleven days. The, ground organisation along the route measuring 5700 miles., involving the establishment of 27 air stations with hangars, wireless, weather officers, staff quarters, and—in some cases — hotels, also 30 intermediate landing grounds, is being developed rapidly.
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Hawera Star, Volume L, 19 December 1930, Page 9
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127CAPE TO CAIRO Hawera Star, Volume L, 19 December 1930, Page 9
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