JUBILEE AIR MAIL

Grey River Argus, 13 May 1935, Page 5

JUBILEE AIR MAIL

(Per Press Association). WELLINGTON May 11Sir Charles Kingsford Smith’s decision that two planes shall take part in next week’s* jubilee trans-Tasman flight has been justified by the keen interest in the project which has been taken by the people of the Commonwealth and New Zealand. This is evidenced, so far as the Dominion is concerned, by the large quantity of mail despatched by the Wanganella ta Sydney to be carried back to New Zealand on the Southern Cross, one of

the principal offices alone handling 3000 of these letters, many of which are intended to make the doublecrossing by air and then to be returned by steamer to the sender in New Zealand as a souvenir of the complete flight.

The mail to be carried on the return flight from New Zealand is sure to be of record proportions This is the firs’: opportunity of sending a letter by the air-mail from New Zealand to Britain and to countries served by/he Aus-tralian-England Airways (including the Dutch East Indies, Singapore, and the Federated Malay Straights’, Hong King, Ceylon. India* Iraq. Palestine. Egypt, 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 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.