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1928
1928 - 0396.PDF
MAY 1928 85 Si The new aero- drome at Mel- bourne: An Aerial View, showing Larkin buildings and river at back, providing sea- plane mooring base. It is situ- ated 2 miles from Hobson's Bay. Si ffi. The medical work accomplished by Dr. Hope-Michod and others by means of Qantas aeroplanes has been so notable that the Australian Inland Mission is now arranging with Oantas for a permanent arrangement by which the Mission doctors will be able to use aeroplanes for their work. The scheme was to come into operation in April of this year. In the main, the experience of Australia has proved that Aircraft show up to least advantage when working in rivalry with railways. They score most heavily when they are the only means of communication, or are only rivalled by coasting steamers, camels, bullocks, horses, or Ford cars. For this reason an air service between Brisbane and Charleville was not originally considered worth while. But in the case of trunk lines it has been found that passengers will, if they can, book right through by aeroplane, whether a train follows the same route for part of the way or not. A Brisbane man who wants to visit Clon curry resents the discomfort and delay of having to rail out to Charleville before he can emplane. It has therefore been the ambition of Qantas for a long time past to have their mail route extended to the State capital— as was done long ago in West Australia when the Geraldton- Perth extension was sanctioned. This will soon be an accomplished fact under the new scheme of aerial expansion which Mr. Bruce's Government has adopted. In the mean- time an unsubsidised delivery of newspapers by air from Brisbane to Toowoomba is in actual operation. The other end will also be extended from Camooweal to Darwin. It should be added that in over five years of running there has been only one fatal accident on the Qantas line, while the regularity and general efficiency of the service have been of the highest standard. The idea of a Queensland without a Qantas is now unthinkable. There are very few air lines outside Australia of which as much as that could be said. In November last the annual report of the company was presented by the present chairman, Mr. Fergus McMaster. It stated that after paying all expenses in connection with the management, the establishment of the two flying schools at Longreach and Brisbane, the Normanton extension, and after allowing ^3,821 14^. 3d. for depreciation and ^410 in respect of the Tambo accident, there remained a net profit THREE VIEWS IN THE LARKIN WORKS : Above, a corner of the hangar (160 ft. by 80 ft.), containing a .Sopwith " Wallaby," a D.H.50A, and a A.N.E.C. III. On the left, a corner of the workshop, with stores in background, and on the right the dustproof engine repair room, 360
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