London, Mar. 8.
The departure of air mails from Great Britain without the times for the closing of the mails being made available to the public was the subject of a question in the House of Commons to-day by Mr. C. A. Duckworth, Conservative member for the Shrewsbury division of Salop.
Sir Walter Womersley, the Assistant Postmaster-General, said that this only applied to first-class mail to the Empire countries on roads to East and South Africa, and to India and Malaya respectively, He hoped that when adequate experience had been obtained incident to this traffic in relation to the aircraft capacity available, lid would fe able to publish such information es he has recently done in the case of one of the weekly services to South Africa.
Referring to the suggestion that people were using foreign air mails Which flew according to a fixed schedule in view of the uncertainty in Great Britain, the Assistant "Pox master-General said that the approximate weekly weight of the "United Kingdom mail, by Imperial Airways, on.these routes was fifteen tons as against 1% tons by foreign air lines.—Reuter.
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