ENGLISH MAILS
SURPRISE SHIPMENT
The size of the mail carried by the liner Aorangi, which will reach Auckland tomorrow from Vancouver, has led postal authorities to believe that a dispatch from Britain is added to mail previously expected only from Canada and the United States, states today's "New Zealand Herald." The establishment of the Empire air-mail scheme has closed this route to letters from England to New Zealand, but a total of 2500 bags of mail and 1084 parcel receptacles being brought by the Aorangi may possibly include a last consignment.
In the past English mail has comprised a large proportion of shipments brought from the Pacific Coast. The quantity carried by the Aorangi is equally as heavy as those brought before the Empire ail-mail scheme began, and for this reason it is apparent that mail from Britain is maintaining the total.
The Mariposa, which will reach Auckland from Sydney on Monday morning, has an air mail dispatch which left London on August 7.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 44, 20 August 1938, Page 10
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ENGLISH MAILS
Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 44, 20 August 1938, Page 10
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