NO PASSENGERS

Taranaki Daily News, 15 April 1935, Page 5

NO PASSENGERS

NEW ANGLO-AUSTRALIAN SERVICE.

INTERMEDIATE PARTS BOOKED.

By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright Ree. 7.30 p.m. oLndon, April 13. No passengers left on the first plane of the Anglo-Australian passenger air service to-day, but, in any event, none was acceptable owing to several intermediate sections of the route being previously booked up. It is understood there are three bookings for next Saturday.

FASTER MAIL SCHEDULE.

TO AUSTRALIA IN A WEEK.

Rec. 7.30 p.m. London, April 13. Sir Kingsley Wood, the British Post-master-General, at a newspaper fund dinner, said the Post Office contemplated in the next few months a reduction of the time schedule of the air mails, bringing Britain within two days of India, two and a half days of East Africa, four'days of Singapore and seven days of Australia.

Aviation authorities do not interpret Sir Kingsley Wood’s statement, as meaning any early drastic acceleration of the Australian service. The seven days schedule depends firstly on the provision of a fleet of new and faster aircraft, which could not be ready before the end of 1936, and secondly the completion of an Anglo-Dominions financial agreement for a large scale development of the Imperial air routes.