AIR SERVICES.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20412, 5 December 1931, Page 14

AIR SERVICES.

CARRIAGE OF MAILS. SPECIAL FLIGHTS BEFORE j CHRISTMAS. (jPRSSS ABSOCIiTIOX TSLBQBAIt.) WELLINGTON, December 4. Air mail flights embracing almost the whole of New Zealand, will be undertaken on December 24th, and will furnish a method of sending Christmas greetings and gifts which Ims not been available previously. In addition to these services trial flights between Auckland and Gigborne and Gisborne and Auckland, "with calls at Hamilton and Rotorua on each journey will be made on December 10th. All flights are being sponsored by the New Zealand Air League. Owing to space limitations parcels proper will not be accepted, but all other postal articles, including packets with a weight limit of 51b, may be sent by air mail. Several machines will be used on these Christmas flights. Having connected with the limited from Auckland and carrying air mail from Gisborne, the machine will leave Palmerston North at 7.15 a.m. for Invercareili. Ifc will leave Wellington at 8.15, Christchurch 10.30, Oamaru at noon, and Dunedin at 1 p.m., arriving at Invercargill at 2 p.m. Another mail will leave Wellington at 7.30 a.m. for Auckland, and included in it will be mail brought by the ferry from the South Island. It will stop at Palmerston North, where it will connect with the Gisborne air mail, and, proceeding at 8.45 a.m., will leave Wanganui at 9.30, New Plymouth 11.15, and completing its journey, will arrive at Auckland at 1.30 p.m. Leaving-Gisborne at 4 a.m. and Hastings an hour later, another machine will arrive at Palmerston North at 6.30 a.m. A return trip will then be made. At 9 a.m., the aeroplane will leave for Gisborne calling at Hastings, which will be left at 10.30 a.m., aud arriving at its destination at noon. On Thursday next another, flight will be carried out between Auckland and Gisborne. Similar conditions to those governing the Christmas mails will apply. Auckland will be left at 9 a.m., Hamilton at 9.30, Rotorua at 10 a.m., and Gisborne will be reached at noon. The return trip will be made in the afternoon, Gisborne being left at 3.30 p.m. Rotorua at 5.30 p.m., and Hamilton at: G, a landing being made at Auckland at 6.39 p.m.