AIR MAIL SERVICE.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13179, 11 February 1936, Page 5

AIR MAIL SERVICE.

SECOND EDITION

AUSTRALIAN ARROGANCE.

FEDERAL GOVERNMENT CRITICISED.

United Press Assn.—By Electric T elegraph—Co pyri flit. SYDNEY. February 10.

The Sydney Morning Herald, in a leader commenting on the Federal Government’s attitude to the airmail scheme, says: “Apparently New Zealand can have the London conneotion when Australia feels able to provide it and on Australia’s terms. It may safely be concluded that neither the British nor New Zealand Governments will sit down meekly under that sort of attitude from Canberra.”

The leader points out that co-oper-ation in the service is desired not merely between London and Oanbcrra but among the half-dozen parties ol which Australia is the only objector.

“A* for the defence aspect the- appearances suggest that the Commonwealth and Imperial authorities are at odds in their strategical conception of air power as an auxiliary to the Navy. It may be* held unpatriotic. if not rash, to piesume that the Imperial General Staff is letter equipped to appreciate the Pacific situation than the Federal Defence Department. Nevertheless, many Australians still do so presume. But it. would be interesting to know how far in our defence plans the* letters ‘N.Z’ in the word ‘Anzac’ are now ignored in Canberra.”