Sir Philip mentioned that correspondence covering at least eight sides of special light paper could be sent within the half-an-ounce lim{t. Tt would, of course, be for the other participating governments to fix their cater for passenger as well as mail traffic to operate by night as freely as by day.
It would not be practicable to give further details as regards finance, the types of aircraft, etc, until ne-Sotiations with the other governments concerned were completed, and he could as yet give no date for the inauguration of the scheme.
Provision of the necessary feet, Jground organization, etc, would require a period of something like two years before a project of this magni-udo, constituting as it did the largest step forward which had yet been taken in the development of Empire air communications, could be brought into full operation.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.