FASTER AIR MAILS
Duplicated Service To Australia NEW ZEALAND BENEFITS Greater assurance of prompt linking up of the New Zealand air mail to and from England is provided by the duplication of the Australia-Singapore-England air service which is now in operation. Air mails for London now leave Sydney every Tuesday and Friday evening, while the inward air mails tire due to arrive at Sydney every Tuesday and Friday morning. Under the present running of the Tasman steamers, there will continue to be only one outward normal dispatch weekly from New Zealand, to connect with the air service leaving Sydney on Tuesdays. However, the post office will take advantage of every Other opportunity of making quick connection with the outward air mail from Sydney on Fridays. In the reverse direction, the inward duplicated air mail due at Sydney on Fridays should continue to connect with the weekly steamer from Australia to New Zealand, while there will be opportunities for the Tuesday inward air mail to connect with the Vancouver and San Francisco mail steamers leaving Sydney on Thursdays at fortnightly intervals, or with the Matson steamer leaving Sydney on a Wednesday every 28 days and occasionally with other steamers.
The first evidence of accelerated service due to the duplication is the fact that English air mail for New Zealand which arrived at Sydney by the duplicated service last Tuesday, having been dispatched from London on May 13, was forwarded next day to Auckland by the Monterey, due on May 30, though under the former conditions this mail would not have been taken beyond Singapore so promptly, and would not have reached Sydney until after the departure of the Monterey, thus delaying its arrival in New Zealand until Thursday, June 4. Weekly inward dispatches of English air mail have been arriving in New Zealand during the last two months from 15 to 17 days from time of dispatch from Croydon, and the outward letters have averaged 17 to IS days in transit to England.
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Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 208, 30 May 1936, Page 16
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332FASTER AIR MAILS Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 208, 30 May 1936, Page 16
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