AERIAL MAIL SERVICES.
INAUGURATION NEXT YEAR. | ■ AUCKLAND TO THE NORTH. I i CHRISTCHURCH AND TIMARU. ! [BT TELEGRAPH. OWN CORRESPONDENT.] ! WELLINGTON. Sunday. The Postmaster-General, Hon. J. G. Coates, states that the Cabinet has approved of the inauguration of aerial mail services. A start will be made early in the New Year between Christchurch and j Timaru in the South Island and between j Auckland, Whangarei, and Dargaville in j the North. These services are to be run I regularly at least for a month or two in j order that the department may ascertain what the financial results of the venture I will be. The experiments made already have i proved that mails can be carried between the points named with great saving in time, but aerial letters cannot He delivered j as quickly as telegrams, aud the amount of use that will be made of the aerial i services by business people and others, after the first novelty has worn off, remains to be seen. The charge for the carriage and delivery of an, aerial- letter will be in the neighbourhood of sixpence.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LVII, Issue 17652, 13 December 1920, Page 4
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