London, Apr. 18.
An important step towards th [ce-ordination of the railways air-transport companies has been approved by a Joint Parliamentary Committee, which has agreed unanimously to Bills promoted the railway companies power to add air-t facilities.
The Parliamentary Committe stipulated that local authorities must be consulted with reference to the establishment of aerodromes.
Sir Herbert Walker, general) manager of the Southern Railway explained that the railway com panies, conjointly with the air-transport companies, desived to pro-vielle services for the continental fave and the islands of Europe Went of @ point 20 degrees east of Greenwich, that is, slightly east of Budapest. ' This limitation is. being inserted at the instance of the Air Minister and Imperial Airways Ltd., to prevent competition beyond Warsaw and Budapest.
As an instance of the present state of affairs, Sir Herbert Walker that the journey to sea and vail takes twenty hours while by air it only takes nin three quarters. The cost the journey by ale ix only shillings move.—Reuter,
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