EMPIRE AIR MAILS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 305, 22 November 1934, Page 9

EMPIRE AIR MAILS

PARTICIPATION OF DOMINION. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, Nov. 21. The Australia-Singapore-England airmail service, which is to be inaugurated next month, will* l>e available lor mails to and from New Zealand, according to an announcement by the Postmaster-General (Hon. A. Hamilton) to-day. Air-mails from Australia by the first flight will leave Brisbane on Monday, December 10, and will arrive in London on December 24. while the through air service from Britain will commence from London on December 8, the air-mails being, due in Brisbane on December 20.

The regular schedule provides for a weekly air service to and from Britain, commencing at Brisbane on Wednesdavs and terminating at London on Mondays, 12 days later, while the inward service will commence in London on Saturdays and terminate at Brisbane on Thursdays, also 12 days later. The schdule is so arranged that air-mails despatched from New Zealand on Fridays will connect with the air-mail at Brisbane the following Wednesday, while air mails arriving at Brisbane on Thursdays will connect with the New Zealand steamer leaving on Fridays. With reference to the first flight on the new service, the last mail from New Zealand to connect will be despatched from Auckland on November 30 by the Monterey. The first inward mail should connect with the Monowai, leaving Sydney on December 21 and arriving at Auckland on December 24.