AIR TRAFFIC

Hokitika Guardian, 25 November 1935, Page 4

AIR TRAFFIC

NEW ZEALAND’S GROWING MAIL

Air mail services utilised by the New Zealand Post Office have developed so extensively that the Department has issued an airmail schedule for the use of its customers which requires fourteen pages for a description of the general conditions of air carriage of postal matter and particulars of the routes covered. This publication, appropriately printed on sky-blue paper, discloses the surprising fact that 150 countries can be reached by air mail correspondence from New Zealand; The principal service is weekly via Australia-Singapore-England. When the steamer connections between New Zealand and Australia are suitable, tne transit time by air between New Zeeland "and Great Britain and vice versa is from sixteen to seventeen days.

Air mail correspondence is also accepted in New Zealand to link up by steamer with the extensive services, covering. North, South a.nd Central America and the West Indies. Money orders can be transmitted from New Zealand to Great Britain and Ireland t>y air.

As for'the extent of the air-mail bus- | iness of the Dominion at the beginning of this year, the average weekly despatch from New Zealand to England totalled 1,000 letters, but the postings have since increased to an average per week, though at this point the traffic seems to be stationary.

Inward air traffic is of approximate! the same dimensions, an average takew for the last few months showing weekly arrivals of approximately 2,500 letters from Britain, while 150 more come every week from intermediate countries served by the Imperial Airways routes in the East and through thff whole length of Africa to Capetown*