EMPIRE AIR ROUTES.
[PROGRESS MADE IN INDIA. | DIFFICULTY WITH PERSIA. (Received November 18, 5.5 p.m.) A. and N.Z.-Sun. LONDON. Nov. 17. In the House of Commons the Minister of Air, Sir Samuel Hoare, stated with respect, to the proposed air routes to Australia and Capetown, that the service between Cairo and Basra was operating once a week each way with 100 per cent, efficiency. For the next stage, to Karachi, the Fersian Government had not yet agreed to a route along the shores of the Persian Gulf. The Government of India was organising the route from Karachi to Calcutta. The Royal Air Force had already surveyed the link from Calcutta to Rangoon and Singapore. With reference to the South African route, the Minister said the experimental route by Khartoum and Kisumu had been interrupted owing to a mishap to a machine.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19798, 19 November 1927, Page 11
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141EMPIRE AIR ROUTES. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19798, 19 November 1927, Page 11
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