TRANS-TASMAN FLIGHT

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXV, Issue 124, 11 May 1935, Page 5

TRANS-TASMAN FLIGHT

Jubilee Air-Mail GREAT INTEREST SHOWN WELLINGTON, May 11. Sir 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. That interest is evidenced so far as the Dominion ■is concerned by the large quantity of mail dispatched by the Wanganeila to Sydney to bo 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 double crossing by an 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 retuin flight from New Zealand is sure to be of record proportions. This is the first opportunity of sending a letter by the all-air route from New Zealand to Britain and to countries served by the Australia-England Airways (including Dutch East Indies, Singapore, and the Federated Malay States, Hong Kong, Ceylou, India, Irak, 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 Higa 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.