§ 30. Mr. LEWISasked the Postmaster-General on what grounds it was decided that a contract for carrying British air mails to Scandinavia should be entered into before any regular British service of aeroplanes between this country and Scandinavia had been inaugurated?
§ Major TRYONI would refer the hon. Member to the answer which I gave to the hon. and gallant Member for Hertford (Sir M. Sueter) on 5th March of this year.
§ Mr. LEWISCan my right hon. and gallant Friend give the House any other example of the granting to a private company of a contract to carry mails, whether by sea, by land, or by air, before any regular service has been inaugurated by the company?
§ Major TRYONIt seems to me that if there has been no regular service, it was time we had one and I am very glad to have established one.