THE AIR MAIL.
EXPERIAIENTAL PERIOD.
Per Press Association
WELLINGTON, Alay 15. An decrease in the postings lor dispatch by air-mail is recorded in the returns of the Post and Telegraph Department for last week which was the first full week of operation of the new time-table between Dunedin and Palmerston North. The number of Jetters carried was 12,129, as compared with 15,993 the week before and 12,402 the week before that.
The experimental period of three months now has four weeks to run. The Government will then have to consider whether the support given the air-mail justifies a continuance of the service. So far the most enthusiastic supporters of the experiment have been philatelists, whoso heavy postings accounted for the high total of letters in the first week and also contributed to the increase in the seventh week, which was the week in which sales were first made of Anzac stamps. The weekly totals of postings so fai have been: —First week, 33,793; second, 12,470: third, 14,189; fourth, 11,776; fifth, 10,936; sixth, 12,402; seventh, 15,993; eigth, 12,129.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 141, 16 May 1936, Page 9
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177THE AIR MAIL. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 141, 16 May 1936, Page 9
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