AIR MAIL
TASMAN FLIGHT
ARRANGEMENTS MADE
Arrangements have been made with Sir Charles Kingsford Smith for a mail to bo carried on the return flight to Australia of the Southern Cross. Subject to weather conditions being favourable, the aeroplane will leave for Sydney from Ninety-mile Beach on Wednesday, March 28. The mail will be made up,at tiro Kaitaia Post Office/-' In making the announcement today, the Postmaster-General (the Hon. A. Hamilton) said that a special postage stamp would not be issued, but it was pointed out that the ordinary series of New Zealand air-mail stamps included a sevenpence denomination suitable for the occasion. For postniarking the correspondence forwarded in the mail a special steel date-stamp, which will include the words "TransTasman Air Mail, Southern Cross," would bo used at the Kaitaia Post Office instead of the ordinary steel datestamp. The innovation was expected to be of interest to philatelists.
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Evening Post, Volume c, Issue 54, 5 March 1934, Page 10
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149AIR MAIL Evening Post, Volume c, Issue 54, 5 March 1934, Page 10
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