JUBILEE TASMAN FLIGHT

Evening Star, Issue 22026, 11 May 1935, Page 14

JUBILEE TASMAN FLIGHT

USE OF TWO PLANES JUSTIFIED HUGE MAIL LIKELY [Special to the ‘Stas.’] WELLINGTON, May 11. Sir Charles Kingsford Smith’s decision that two planes shall take part' in next week’s Jubilee transtasman flight has been justified by the keen interest in the project which has been taken by the Ble of the Commonwealth and New and. This is shown, so far as tha dominion is concerned, by the large quantity of mail despatched/ by the Wanganella. to Sydney to be carried back to New XeAland on the Southern Cross, one of the' principal offices alone handling 3,000 of these letters, many of which are intended to make tha double crossing by air, and then to be returned by steamer to the sender ia New Zealand as a souvenir of the com* plete flight. The mail to be carried on the return flight from New Zealand is sure to ba of record proportions. _ This is the first opportunity of sending a letter fay the all-air route from New Zealand to. Britain .and to countries served by the Australian-England airways (including the Dutch East Indies, Singapore, and the Federated Malay States, Hongkong, Ceylon, India, Iraq, Palestine, Egyptv South Africa, and the Continent of Europe). There has been a very heavy demand for the special first cover envelopes, and the Post Office, in order to give New: Zealanders an opportunity _of securing these souvenirs of an historic flight, has arranged with the New Zealand High Commissioner that letters addressed in care'of him at 415 the Strand, London, W.C.2, will be posted back by the ordinary mail route to any address written on the back of the envelope, the_ cost of this service being 2d prepaid in. New Zealand stamps. .