AIR MAIL TO N.Z.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXIV, Issue 95, 5 April 1934, Page 6

AIR MAIL TO N.Z.

Ulm’s Next Tasman Flight CROSSING ON TUESDAY NEXT By Telegraph—Press Association. WELLINGTON, April 4. Details of the arrangements for forthcoming trans-Tasman flights by Mr C. T. P. LTm were given by Mr W. Machin, aviation officer for the Vacuum Oil Co., to-day. Mr Ulm will leave Sydney on Tuesday next and will arrive in New Zealand on Wednesday, landing at New Plymouth. The return flight will begin nn Saturday from Ninety-mile Beach in stead of Muriwai as previously stated. The reasons for this change are that Ninety-Mile Beach is 50 miles closer to Sydney than Muriwai, arid there is a prospect of getting slightly better weather for the crossing. The mail will be taken to the Kaitaia Post Office where it will be post marked, and the take-off be made at about 3 u.m. Special envelopes have been prepared for this trip as on other flights. Mr Ulm’s mail to New Zealand had attracted great interest in Australia. Mr Machin said, and it. looked as if the Faith in Australia would bring a capacity mail of 80,000 letters to the Dominion. Asked about the Codock’s flight, Mr Machin said that no date had yet been given, but by this week’s mail he had been informed that only the upholstery remained to be done and the machine would shortly make a flight from Melbourne to Sydney piloted by Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith, and it was expected that the flight to New Zealand would be made shortly afterwards.