Melbourne Apr. 13.
The Postal authorities are making preparations for the quick aerial carriage of mails from Port Darwin ito Sydney after the arrival of the Imperial Airway machine at Port Darwin on April 19—Reuter, Sydney, Apr. 14, The huge demand for special air mail envelopes indicates that the return mail by the Imperial Air-]ways air liner which is now in India 8 route to Australia will be very large.
The postal authorities consider that when the aerial mail is regularly established, the time between Australia and England will be reduced to ten days.—Wireless through Reuter, Sydney, Apr, 19.
The nine-ton aeroplane City Cairo, inaugurating the first official fair mail between england and Aus tralia, met with misfortune within tot 1t8 goal when it crashed toat Kupang, in the south-west Jof Timor Island. Fortunately, nobody was hurt, and all the mails are "The City of Cairo had left Croydon on April 4 for Port Darwin, Arrangements are now made to convey the mails carried by {the air liner to Australia in a "plane lvelonging to the Australian, Natio jai Airways Company, of which Air commodore Kingsford-Smith is the big. mail for, Australi had The air liner, besides cantying a
board when i left Or Tetters for Central Afvica, india and Mayas "Ail there were' safely de-vered and when the pane crashed the only mails aboard were. those for Aveteala—reuter,
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