EMPIRE AIR SERVICE.
DOMINIONS EXTENSION.
a NEGOTIATIONS OPPORTUNE. S un _ LONDON, May 15. Commander C. D. Burney stated in an interview that he could not say how soon the first airship would arrive in Australia or New Zealand from Britain. Everything depended upon the Air Ministry's energy in overcoming the initial difficulties of designing and testing.
If my scheme had been accepted, remarked Commander Burney, we should have made the first voyage to Australia within two years, using wartime monitors as mobile bases at Singapore and on the Australian coast. My Airship Guarantee Company, backed by Messrs. Vickers and Co., owns the Howden airship station, and could undertake any developments on behalf of Australia, New Zealand, and other Dominions if granted a subsidy.
We would need for Australia £300,000 per annum until the service between Britain and Australia had become commercially successful. If the Dominions decide to inaugurate airship services to Britain, there is no reason why they should not start negotiations now and begin building when the Air Ministry and, ourselves have completed the trial tests between England and India.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18711, 17 May 1924, Page 9
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