ARCTIC AIR MAIL.
CANADIAN SERVICE STARTED. (Received 1.30 p.m.) VANCOUVER, December 10. A message from McMurray states that, carrying half a ton of mail, two 'planes of the Commercial Air/ivays fleet, hopped off on Tuesday opening up Canada's first Arctic air mail service. The ships headed for Fort Chipewayan and are expected to make the trip of-, 300 miles in three hours. The take-off Avas accomplished in a temperature:. .40 degrees below zero. A perpetual cold haze, lndde visibility only fair. ; ■"■'■: [. • ■
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Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 293, 11 December 1929, Page 7
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