The startling news that we have had recently is the fact that very soon it may be quite a regular thing Java in three lone amounted to 13,89 1b. as compared with 10.710 Ib. for' similar Derlod In' 1003, Imperial these figures, "to note the growth in the mail loads carried "by our machines since the inception of the company just over ten years ago. In ur first year, 1924-25, we carried Jabout 100,000 letters. Tu our second, YeRr that total was doubted, and by 1026-27 It had increased to 400,000 otters. Then in 1927-28 there was a Jump to 3,000,000, and the following. year saw an increase of another mil-ion. "By 1929-80 the figure stood at 15,500,000, and for several years after that we went on adding roughly 1,000,000 letters a year, until at the present time the annual total stands [At approximately 12,000,000."
The Bus Problem AMI this is very well, but the majority of us have still to get about our ordinary daily lives in the streets, and it is in our streets that the trafic problems really worry us, especially if we have to come long [distances to our work daily. Of late [Singapore has been altering its transport, reducing the mosquito buses that hold only a few passengers, and trying to replace these small buses with large trolleys or omnibuses. The policy has been fairly successful save in afew neighbourhoods, and we still have many hundreds Jsmall buses on certain very populous, routes. Our Municipal Commission rg, however, are thinking of ridding the city altogether of these small uses, and the public has been so agitated about this that the press has Aterally been flooded with letters of protest about it. Here is an extract from one such letter: few evenings ago I vas near the Ritz Picture Theatre when people:
"Think of Itt This with pilots, pos sibly risking their lives. This sober fact.and to be made possible because at long last we are going have night as well as day flying on the Far Eastern service. The new planes that the Netherlands are building will have accommodation for sixteen passengers, and sleeping provided in four private saloons, each saloon having day and night accommodation for four pose Rengers, At present, so far as T can learn, Tmperial Airways does not intend to practice any night flying on this route; but that night-fying inevitable seems to be a foregone conclusion.
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