AIR MAILS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 277, 22 November 1934, Page 24

AIR MAILS.

AUSTRALIA-ENGLAND.

17 DAYS—3/ PER OUNCE.

FIRST LEAVES NOVEMBER 30.

The first air mail of the new regular weekly service from Australia to England, via Singapore, will leave Brisbane, the Australian terminal point, 011 December 10. The ship-connection from New Zealand leaves 011 November 30 by the Monterey from Auckland. The letters are due to arrive in England on Christmas Eve.

The official announcement from the Post and Telegraph Department states that the air mails from Australia by the first flight, which will be run on a special schedule exceeding the normal time allowance by two days, will leave Brisbane on Monday, December 10, and arrive in London on December 24. The through air service from Great Britain will commence from • London on December S, and the air mails are due in Brisbane on December 20.

The regular air schedule provides for a weekly air service to and from Great Britain." The outward service will commence at Brisbane on Wednesdays, and terminate at London on Mondays twelve days later. The inward service will commence at London 011 Saturdays and terminate at Brisbane on Thursdays also twelve days later. Air mails for dispatch by the outward service will close in Sydney on Tuesday evenings, and Mill be conveyed to Cootamundra, New South Wales, by train, and thence to Brisbane by air. In the reverse direction, the mails received at Brisbane 011 Thursdays will be conveyed by air to Cootamundra and tlicnce to Sydney by train, arriving early 011 Fridays.

The schedule is so arranged that air mails dispatched from Xew Zealand by the weekly intercolonial steamers leaving on Fridays will connect with the outward service from Sydney on the following Tuesday, and. in the reverse direction, air mails arriving at Sydney on Fridays will connect with the Xew Zealand steamer leaving on the same day. When the steamer connection is suitable, this schedule will provide Xew Zealand, with a weekly 17-day service to and from Great Britain. Seventeen-day Service. With reference to the first outward flight on the new service, the last mail to connect will be the dispatch from Auckland on November 30 by the Monterey. The first inward mail is due in Sydney on December 21 and should connect with the Monowai, leaving on the same day and arriving at Auckland on December 24. If the Australia-Singapore-England service only is used, the charge is at the rate of 1/6 per. half ounce to Great Britain and Ireland, and 1/9 per half ounce to European countries. If additional air transport to destination is desired an additional charge is involved. All correspondence for dispatch by air is to have the blue air-mail label attached to the cover in the top lefthand corner.

The air mail service to Great Britain and certain other countries via Karachi will be discontinued on the inauguration of the Australia-Singapore-Eugland airmail service. The last connection for the Karachi service was the dispatch by the Monowai from Wellington on November 15. Postage on correspondence for dispatch by air may be prepaid in air-mail or ordinary postage (stamps.