TO DARWIN IN 108 HOURS
Possibility of Service Operating Without Subsidy ’PLANES FLY DAY AND NIGHT FORTY-PASSENGER MACHINES nimrod Association —By ElecOAo T«iegr*pH Copyright.) Received 2.30 p.m. to-day. LONDON, July 12. Tho “Daily Telegraph” says that an air service to Darwin in 108 hours by seaplanes flying day and night, also services to the Cape, t° the Argentine and to New York, are being discussed with hanking and shipping interests by a member of tho House of Commons, Mrs Henry Burton Tate and Miss Winifred Boys-Smith. Mrs Tate says that by using existing harbours and meteorological and ra'dio facilities, these services could operate without a subsidy.
Machines carrying 30 to 40 passengers and having a speed of 190 miles an hour would lie used.
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Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 13 July 1935, Page 6
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124TO DARWIN IN 108 HOURS Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 13 July 1935, Page 6
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