AIRMAIL POSTAGE RATE

Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24870, 9 May 1946, Page 4

AIRMAIL POSTAGE RATE

EXPLANATION BY ACTING POSTMASTER-GENERAL An explanation of the basis on wMA the charge of 4s a half ounce xor air mail letters from New Zealand to Can* ada and the United States is niade v given in a statement from the Acunß* Postmaster-General (the Hon. *• Jones). The statement was madej“ answer to a letter to the editor of Press” which was referred to jg Jones. The writer of the letter, w M. Grant, of Christchurch, asked the charge for air mail letters to Norm America was “so exorbitant.” In his reply. Mr Jones states: — “The New Zealand rate of 4s a nag ounce payable on air mail for . L ' an " rflt and the United States of America ww based in the first place on the charge made by Pan American Airways the conveyance of that mail, « though the Pan American service suspended in December, 1941, the A . Zealand Post Office has been require to pay at the Pan American mails conveyed by air ciflc to North America by the tary services that subsequently into operation. , _ Arv ice “There is now no diteri air serv from New Zealand to North A and consequently air mails for C and the United States have to warded by the Empire service Wbo don end from there by sir acro» v _ North Atlantic. In add .' u °P n r« ing to pay the air transit flew New Zealand to London, the w Zealand Post Office has toPff charge for the North Atlantic s» “"When the direct Pacific from New Zealand to North is re-established, air mail ence for Canada and the Unitea of America will once again y on m that service and if any the charge is made by th-e ar ing company or compan es ror 1 riage of this mail the rates wiU fully reflect that reaucu