SAVING OF TIME

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 108, 10 May 1933, Page 9

SAVING OF TIME

AN OFFICIAL STATEMENT

The Secretary, General Post Office, states that the service ig being arranged by the British and • Australian post offices, the cost of the service, it is understood, to be shared by the two countries on the basis of milage—approximately three-fifths by the United Kingdom and two-fifths by Australia. Great Britain will be responsible for the extension from Karachi to Singapore, and Australia for the SingaporeAustralia section. The charge proposed for letter! dispatched from Great Britain to Australia and New Zealand is Is 3d for each half-.ounce (air-mail fee and postage combined). The same rate would' probably apply from New Zealand to Great Britain. It is estimated that the transit time London to Sydney by the proposed air service will, at the commencement, at any rate, be 18 days,'making a transit time London to New Zealand of 22 days if connection is made at Sydney on the sailing day, (Friday) with the New Zealand weekly steamer. This transit compares with an average transit time of 30, days between New Zealand and Great Britain. Assuming that the air-mail scryice from Australia to England would com-, mence at Sydney on.Tuesdays, following the arrival of the New Zealand steamer—rand the New. Zealand Post Office has no information on this point at present—it is estimated that the acceleration in ' delivery in Great Britain will vary from four days to twenty days. Until the service is extended right thromgh to Australia, it will offer little, if any, advantage for the dispatch of letters.