SPAIN TO ARGENTINA
[WEEKLY AIRSHIP SERVICE. GOVERNMENT' SUBSIDY GRANTED. (Press Aeeoelatioo —By Tvlegraph—Copyright.) MADRID, November 18. The Ministry has approved of the creation of a company to conduct a weekly airship service to Argentina from Seville, where an air port is to be created at a cost of £1,250,000. Three airships are to be constructed costing £BOO,OOO apiece, to carry 40 passengers and 40 of a crew and 16 tons of baggage. The Government voted £20,000, and agreed to subsidise the service to a maximum of 240,000 annually for five years, after which the air port becomes the Government's property. —A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19952, 20 November 1926, Page 14
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