AIR MAIL SERVICES
AUSTRALIAN PROPOSALS (Received Dec. 5, noon) CANBERRA, Dec. 4. The Commonwealth Air Communications Committee’s report contains a number. of recommendations governing flying in Australia, It also states that it is immediately calling tenders for four mail services: (1) Darwin to Singapore; (2) Darwin to Cootamundra, which will ‘be the distributing centre for mails for Sydney and Melbourne ; (3) Catherine to Perth, via the North-west Coast; and (4) Melbourne to Hobart. The committee states that the Austratralian service to Singapore will not involve so much expenditure as contributing to an Imperial air mail. The Cabinet decided to adopt the recommendations of the committee that Australia should control tho service from Darwin to Singapore. The Cabinet also adopted the report on air mail services within Australia.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17954, 5 December 1932, Page 5
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