IRISH AIR MAIL PLANS ANNOUNCED.
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WITH reference to our paragraph VV published on November 22, Mr. Lemass, Minister for Industry and Commerce in the Irish Free State Government, has now announced in the Dail that arrangements have been made for the formation of an Irish air transport company to run mail and passenger services in conjunction with 01ley Air Service, Ltd., Croydon.
Actually, the 01ley concern will do all the flying for some time. Services are to be started early in the New Year between Dublin and Liverpool and Bristol, connecting with express trains to Liandon and elsewhere. Later, a direct service will be run between Dublin and London, and an extension to Cork is planned.
Mr. Lemass proposed an expenditure of about £3,000 on ground equipment, including a radio station at Baldonnel ateodrome, which is necessarybefore an all-weather service can be run. This n as agreed to.
MANCHESTER AIRPORT LAND VALUES DECIDED.
A FEW days ago, Mr. F. J. Kirby, tAthe official arbitrator in the recent dispute between Manchester Corporation and Mr. Robert Park, the owner of Fir . Tree Farm, Ringway, announced that the corporation must pay £6,885 for the 124 acres, equal to
about £55 10s, per acre. Mr. Park had valued the land at £74 per acre and the corporation's land valuer put the price at £44 per acre.
He reckoned £40 for agricultural value and £4 for potential value " in the remote future." Mr. Park argued that building is taking place chiefly on. the south side of Manchester and that higher prices had been paid for land only a mile from Fir Tree. Farm.
This arbitration case provides a lesson on the dangers which municipalities run of having to pay heavily for land, and on .the. advisability of reserving airport sites' beforehand.
Negotiations between the corporation and other landowners at Ringway have not yet been completed. The En-Tout-Cas Co. (Syston), Ltd., Leicester, has the contract for clearing and levelling the land. Machinery for this purpose is now on-the Site and the Lord. Mayor recently cut the first turf and declared the work started.
THE PROPOSED LINE TO LISBON.
BECAUSE of the difficulty of securing delivery of British aeroplanes for its proposed service to Lisbon, Crilly Airways, Ltd., is buying from the Royal Netherlands Air Lines (K.L.M.) four of the Fokker F 12 machines which that company has been using for some years on its European and East Indian routes. These wellknow n machines have three Wasp 420 h.p. geared engines, an all-up weight of about 17,000 lb. and a payload capacity of 3,200-3600' lb.:-with a range of about 650 miles.
The longest " hop " on the proposed London—Bordeauxa--. /vfarlsid — Lisbon