EMPIRE AIR SERVICE.

Waikato Times, Volume 100, Issue 16712, 30 January 1926, Page 5

EMPIRE AIR SERVICE.

ENGLAND TO AUSTRALIA.' EXTENSION URGED. NO TECHNICAL OPPOSITION. (Australian and N.Z. Gable Assn.) LONDON, January 28. An article by Commander J. M. Kenworthy, Liberal M.P. for Kensing-ton-upon-llull, is published in the Outlook, in which the writer urges the extension without delay .to Rangoon and Australia of the air service to Egypt and India. Commander Kenworthy contends that there are no technical difficulties in the way of a weekly both-way service to Australia. It would, he says, cost less than £300,000 a year on a basis of 5s per ton per mile. Sydney could be brought within five days of London by day and night flying, or within ten days by day flying only There is not much future for a passenger service, says the writer, but the British, Indian and Australian Governments, by instituting a commercial service, would save a large sum in cost of cablegrams, and a great advantage would be the quicker despatch of commercial documents. The service could not be All Red. The existing ' European and Asian routes must be used, and thence the flight would be via the Dutch 1 East Indies to Darwin.