AIR-MAIL PROPOSALS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 45, 22 February 1936, Page 9

AIR-MAIL PROPOSALS

AUSTRALIAN HOPES i TRANS-TASMAN SECTION INVITATION TO NEW ZEALAND DISCUSSION DESIRED [By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyj lghf| Receivetl Feb. 21, 11.25 p.m. SYDNEY, Feb. 21. The Sydney Sun’s Canberra correspondent says that an invitation lias been extended to the New Zealand Government to send a representative to Australia to discuss with the Commonwealth points of mutual interest in the new air-mail proposals submitted by Britain. Air. Lyons said to-day that the air link with New Zealand was involved in the British proposals. If an agreement could be reached between Australia and Britain as to the rest of the service, the British Government desired the trans-Tasroan section to be added so as to terminate the complete service in New Zealand, where a later trans-Paciiic service from America might connect with it. It is understood that the British proposals envisage control of the entire route by Imperial Airways, including the trans-Tasman link. This, if adopted, would mean the end of the hopes of establishing an independent Tasman service by Australia avd New Zealand interests. HOME AIRCRAFT INDUSTRY AUSTRALIA SHOULD ACT WITH CAUTION. Received Feb. 21, 11.20 p.m. LONDON, Feb. 20. A Sun-Herald agency message says that Australia should act cautiously in connection with the proposals to establish a complete home aircraft industry, and argues with the periodical Aeroplane, which points out that the plant necessary to turn out aero motors in a quantity essential in wartime would bo more costly than the whole of the existing material of the Australian Air Force. The Commonwealth would do better to work in alliance with the British firms, thus ensuring a supply of the latest information regarding new types and modifications and new methods of manufacture. The Australians should concentrate on equipping modern repair shops and supply bases with big stocks of unassembled motors and bodies. Not until the population has increased will there be any justification for big constructional design factories.