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AIR MAIL FINANCE,

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GOOD PROFITS AT SMALL

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Reclamation

case. the estimates gives here, although they show a profit. are capable of substantial réduct-

Ther ion.

assume frequent taking down of the engines-the Air Ministry stipulates for this after 200 hours flying, even in

Major C.C. Turner writes in the the case of the best engines,, the Observer as follows:

next best after 100 hours' flying.

BIG MARGIN FOR PROFIT. -Keriki mails can be carried at

Among the various a profit at the same time confer-

expert ring a beneft on the business estimates is che giving a cost of community and providing an 11s. 8d. per ton per mile. important branch for the Royal allowing 30 per cent. for profit. Air Force, enabling the Air This figure is reached by allowing Milistry to keep in training alfor the cost of machine, aero- large number of pilots without drome, repairs, depreciation, in- any charge on the public. Insurance, etc. It makes a 300 addition, the aircraft industry miles journey for such a machine, would have some inducement to including all overbead charges, keep going, and thus be in cost about £470. Such a machine, readiness for diversion to war however, could carry a sufficient production in case of need.

number of letters at 6d. each to

The policy now being pursued bring in £1,250: it could afford by the United States, the French, to do the trip on half load. and the Germen Governments There is no need to elaborate with regard to aviation is founded these figures. One quotaion puts it on this conviction; and aerial as low as 20s. per ton-mile includ- mails are being developed ining 30 per cent, proft. The these countries. A suggested ex-highest is about £2; and even that planation that Great Britain is gives a working profit on mails. 100 poverty-stricken is inadmis The estimates are all based on sible, since the Post Office could war experiences, and ere therefore oarn a profit. and work would be well on the safe side.

found for many hundreds of pilots) One of them assumes that the and mechanics who are now ou: Government aerodromes would be of employment, and are therefore used, charging landing fees, and unproductive consumers. O puts the figure at £1 9e. 4. per these a large proportion will beton mile, a figure (like the other incapable of other employment quotations) that allows for pilot without special training. They and assistants, mechanics, ground are of a good type, and Great staff, fuel,, oil, insurance, offices, Britain is the loser by every one and administration. On this basis of them that leaves the country. it would cost 1s. 33. to carry one pound 100 miles, 13s. 1d. to carry one pound 1,000 miles, and £65 10s.

AIR MAIL SYSTEMS.

The air mails run during the to carry 100 pounds 1,000 miles. railway strike afforded no sort of guide as to what can be done.)

too much.

GREAT POSSIBILITIES,

The fee of 2s. was 300 per cent. To carry a parcel weighing one Letters are convored pound a distance of 1,000 miles by air mail from: New York to would cost 13s. 1d. But twenty Washigton for 11 cents per cunca letters would not weigh more than (inclusive charge). There would one pound, and the charge for be no advantage in sending letters each could therefore be about 7d. to Birmingham, but to Glasgow, And that is for a journey of 1,000 Newcastle, Swansea, and other miles. The lack of forsight of cities a great saving of time could our Air Ministry and Post Office be effected, and letters so convoy is simply amazing. A writer in ed cold be dispatched by ordinary the Times says that at a moderate means to big and populous regions estimate they could have made a linked with those cities, thus profit of £250,000 on aorial mail- belping all the distant regions of carrying in that one week. Two the Kingdom.

or three of the leading British aircraft firms estimated early no dissentients, among the experts, from the view in the year that is. per lb. per 800 that aerial mails can be carried miles is a charge that would give at a profit; just as all agree that a reasonable profit, provided machines took a full load. That

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for passengers the fares charged would work out at about 6d. per must of necessity be very high letter for a distance greater than There are differences of opinion, however, as to the margin of any within the limits of the

United Kingdom.

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GENERAL NEWS.

SLIGHT EARTHQUAKES. Slight earthquakes were felt in Miyoshi town, Hiroshima Ken, on the 4th instant, Since tho 1st instant about 38 shocks have been recorded there. The inhabitants are feeling a good deal of anxiety, as they regard these shocks as an indication that a severo sarth- quake may be expected.

“DEMOBBED" WAR PIGEONS.

Yarmouth. Of the 12,000 pis. eons used by the air ministry, nearly half have been returned or disposed of to private oWNERS. But difficulty is found in re-dis- tributing the birds. One famous flyer, sent to, London, was back at the base roost the next day. Another was picked up in the Bay of Biscay.

WESTMINSTER BRIDGE SAFE.

At a recent meeting of the London County Council, Mt. Squires (chairman of the High- ways Committee), replying to Mr. J. D. Gilbert, M.P., who asked if he could assure the public as to the safety of Westminster Bridge, said the lastexamination of the bridge was | A made on May 29. The bridge was quite safe. Certain work was being done to the parapet, but this į in no way affected the stability of the bridge.

ILLITERACY IN U.S.

The US census of 1910 showed 5,516,163 persons over 10 years of age who could not read or write in any language. The army draft in 1918 showed 700,000 men of draft age, registered, who could not read or write in English or any other language. Over 4,600,000 of the illiterates are 20 years of age or more. This figure, 4 600,000, equals the total. population of the states of Cali- Washington, fornia, Oregon, Montana. Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico and Delaware. Over 58 per cent of these illiterates are white persons and of these 1,500,- 000 are native born.

BUYING A CITY.

- Washington-The powder tOWN of Nitro, W. Va., which the government built and used for war purposes, may go to the high- est of only three bidders for $5,- 800,000. The other two bids were much lower, although it is known that the town cost the govern- ment

high $70,000,000. The bidders were Harris Brothers and Co., chemical manufacturers, of New York City. Next came the New Jersey Machinery Exchange with an offer of $4,312,600. The duPont Chemical Company was third with the bid of $2,508,750. All three of the firms bidding. propose to use the property for the foundation of an industrial town.

ELECTRIC COBWEBS. Manchester-As

passengers were landing from the Transport- er Bridge which links Lancashire and Cheshire at Runcorn, the bridge suddenly receded one yard, and a man named David Henry Howard stepped over the end. fell between the car and the roadway, a distance of 20 feet into the Manchester Ship Canal, and was drowned. At the inquest, Mr. Wool. engineer to the Widnes Corporation. said he had found cobwebs on the collector pully and the driver's cabin. He be- lieved these were saturated with moisture from fog, and that a certain amount of electric current leaked along them to the car switch, causing a momentary and mysterious movement of the car. Mr. Craik, for the Widnes Cor- poration, said the highest author- ities would be consulted to solve the mystery. A verdict of "Accidental death" was returned.

COLONEL JOHN WARD.

In response to a request from

the Comrades of the Great War for an opinion as to the right attitude for ex-Service

wer to adopt during the recent crisis, Colonel John Ward, M.P., sent the following massage:-"I fully approve of your manifesto re- garding Comrades helping to maintain the services essential for the well being of the com- munity. Realising as I do, the terrible consequence which would result from the adoption of any methods of an unconstitutional character to settle the present very grave national, crisis, hi a large number of calcula- Of course, aerial mail could not

citizens should recognise the tions by experts, working pay all the while à flat rate of 2s.

fearful danger of allowing con- independently, but all seeking to was charged. (Doubtless during

flict to arise between the workers provide for every conceivable the strike it was destrable to limit

of the community. The result of, expense. The figures all relate it. Probably if the G. P. O.

such conflict would be chaos, to multi-engine aeroplanes, which charged 9d. for the conveyance of

jeopardising the fabric of society. are disproportionately costly to ordinary inland letters the

Constitutional Government would run, but were chosen in the revenue would fall off to a non-

disappear, Trades Unions would be belief that multi-engine are remunerative point.

engulfed and ex-Service men and more reliable than single-engine But the writer's contention is usually considered to be a country argues plenty of traffic and a big deprived of their pensions by the dependants of the fallen would be aeroplanes. This view must be that the G.P.O. ehould be content well provided modified in the light of the re-with a very small profit, or even there are

with railways, margin always for rapid transit collapse of the State. No words a number of routes at special rates. It is too often of, mine are strong enough to markable regularity of the Lon-with a slight loss, for the sake over which the saving of time assumed that aircraft can only emphasise the danger of such an don-Paris service of single-engine of the indirect benefit to the nation by aerial mail would be con pay over undeveloped countries; upheaval. Stand shoulder to machines; and absolute perfect of a well-established system of siderable. For distances exceed-quite the contrary will prove to shoulder to preserve the security ion could be attained by having orial mails. He would again ing 300 miles it is better to take be the case. But why cannot the of the country you have so frequent emergency landing emphasise the fact that even in a route already richly provided Air Ministry and the General Post loyally served." grounds with ready re-mounts. In the United Kingdom, which is with transport facilities for that Ofice rise to the great occasion.

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