IN THE AIR
SMASHED BY GALE
EMPIRE iFLYING iOAT. (Australian Press Association). (Received this day at 1.30 p.m.) DARWIN, December 13. The Empire flying-boat, Coorang, which arrived last evening fromKoepang with three tons of Christmas mail, was swept ashore and wrecked by an eighty mile an hour ; gale ) which swept across Darwin harbour late lastnight. Mechanics and townspeople worked heroically as the Coorang pounded on the rocks, and were able to save every bag of mail, but it is doubtful, whether the dying-boat, which is yalued at £60,000, can be salvaged.
ARCTIC AIR MAIL
A SOVIET INSTALLATION.
(Independent Cables),
(Received this day at 9. a.m.) MOSCOW, December 12. The regular air mail service established by the Soviet with the Arctic and Eastern Siberia, will drop-letters' and newspapers for reindeer, herdsmen and fifty-six radio stations in the iar north. - '' ' Pilots are also fexperimentirigVfvith parachute delivery of parcels.' ‘‘ ■ Propellor-driven; aerosleds, with a speed of sixty miles an hour, will &up-< plement the. air mail for the remote districts, north of Habarovsk andKamchatka, along the Arctic rivers. ■
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Hokitika Guardian, 13 December 1938, Page 5
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