LETTERS BY AIR
Increasing Popularity In New Zealand The Post Office is now utilising for letter transport by air in New Zealand 3813 route miles daily, and the fiat rate surcharge of a penny an ounce a letter has encouraged the development of the traffic at - a satisfactory rate. In February last year the air services were covering 2000 miles daily, and the number of letters carried weekly was about 22.000. To-day the weekly total is more than double that amount. For the week ended December 26. the weekly postings reached 46,887. There was a decline in the following holiday weeks, but the position has improved, and the weekly averages are now more than double those of the corresponding periods of last year. Overseas airmails dispatched from the Dominion are also increasing, '-the growth during the last three years being at the rate of over 70 per cent, annually. Letters dispatched by the Sydney-Singapore-London air service during the last three years were: In 1035. 'll7.809; in 1936. 209,647; In 1937, 324.470.
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Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 140, 10 March 1938, Page 9
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171LETTERS BY AIR Dominion, Volume 31, Issue 140, 10 March 1938, Page 9
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