AIR MAILS

Evening Star, Issue 22686, 28 June 1937, Page 8

AIR MAILS

AUOKLANE-WELLiMSTGH ROiITE WIDESPREAD SAVINGS IB'TIME New Zealand’s inland air mail facilities made a substantial advance on June 27, when the Wellington-Palmer-ston North-New Plymouth-Auckland service of Union Airways Limited commenced operating. Prior to this date, the Domiir :Vs aL mail services involved ai. • j .nito mileage of nearly 2,000, but, wiiji the addition of the new service and that of the Napier-Gisbonie route, the daily mileage will reach 3,050. , , Mail arrangements have been revised so that full advantage can be taken of the quicker despatch for letters between Wellington and Auckland, connecting services by rail and road being utilised from the points now to bo reached by air. The usual air mail rat© _of 2d per ounce is payable irrespective of the number of air routes used, and covers should bear the blue air mail label on the top left-hand corner. The principal closing times for air mails on the new route are:— Wellington 11 a - ra ' Auckland 10.45 a.m. New Plymouth (southbound) 12.15 p.m. New Plymouth (northbound) 1 p.m. Palmerston N. (northbound) 11-46 a.m. Palmerston N. (southbound) 1.30 p.m. Air-mail letters posted in Auckland at 10.45 a.m. will reach Christchurch on the following day at 7.30 a.m., and Dunedin (by linking up with the South Island air route at Palmerston North) at 1.30 p.m. Inters posted in Dunedin at 7 a.m. and Chnstchurch 9 a.m. will reach Auckland at 3.4 U o’clock on the same day; and there will be similar savings m time tor ail centres en route. Wellington letters posted at 11 a.m. will reach New Plymouth at 2.15 p.m. and Auckland at 3 ThcnThas been steady growth in the regular use of the air mails in New Zealand and, although the business is still ot modest uroportions. it has more than doubled during tie past year. Air-mail letters posted dunng the week ended April 19, 19?6. totalled 10,900, and exactly a year later the weekly postings Imd reached 28,c00. I It is now expected that with so impcrtant an extension of the facilities the Dominion's air-mail business will rapidly expand.