BRITISH AIR MAILS.
FAST SERVICE TO BRAZIL. PLANE AND STEAMER ROUTE. (Received August 17, 11.35 p.m.) United Service. LONDON, Aug 17. A mail between London and Rio do Janeiro in eight days is the latest development in the weekly air mail service in conjunction with steamships. English letters reach the Cape Verde Islands by aeroplane via London, Toulouse and Dakar. A steamship conveys them to Fernando Noronha, an island off Brazil. Thence they go by aeroplane to Brazil and to Buenos Aires.
British air mails are steadily increasing. In 1927 100.0001b. of mails were carried. lJoutes arc now open throughout the Empire as far as Basra, and to Moscow and Constantinople.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 20028, 18 August 1928, Page 11
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