AVIATORS IN MALAYA
LINK WITH AUSTRALIA. CO-OPERATION WITH DUTCH. London, March 12. Aeronautical experts are giving attention to a speech of the Governor of the Straits Settlements, Sir Hugh Clifford, in Singapore, urging an unofficial support of Malayan aviation. He explains that he refers to an air survey company’s proposal to establish a daily airline from Penang to Singapore, and a weekly extension to Batavia, in 1929, with the co-operation of a Dutch line, which is starting in September. The air Ministry approved of the technical side of the scheme, and the Colonial Office sanctioned subsidies from local Governments. Meanwhile, Malayan commercial and shipping interests largely support the scheme. The importance of the airline as an essential link in Anglo-Australian air mails is emphasized. Holland is as anxious to establish air routes to her colonies as Britain is to see the Australian route running. It is desirable that British and Dutch services should grow simultaneously to get the full benefit from them. This cannot be realised until the Calcutta-Ran-goon link is established, but the mail from Singapore has Keen considerably speeded up in the meantime.
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Southland Times, Issue 20446, 26 March 1928, Page 7
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185AVIATORS IN MALAYA Southland Times, Issue 20446, 26 March 1928, Page 7
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