AIR MAILS
SLOWNESS CONDEMNED DEPUTATION IN BRITAIN (Received Sept. 30, 2 p.m.) LONDON, Sept. 29. The Chamber of Commerce deputation to tlio Air Minister, Lord Londonderry, condemned the slowness and costliness ol air mails and urgied that no further contracts be made pending a full inquiry. Sir Geoffrey Clarke said the chamber strongly supported night-flying, though it entailed the separation of the passenger and mail services. The cruising speeds of British services were much too slow for modern methods, Continuous flying and faster machines would enable transport to .Calcutta in 3i- days, to Sydney in 71 days, and to Wellington in 81 days. In the meanwhile the mails should travel at- least 2500 miles a day. Flying arid resting 12 hours, when trains and steamers travelled 24 hours, was reminiscent of tho hare and tortoise.
Lord Londonderry agreed with the desirability of improving the services, but said that night-flying was scarcely practicable at present. Certain sections were being speeded up. It was mhinly a matter of expense.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18207, 30 September 1933, Page 6
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