TRIAL AIR MAIL.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21159, 16 April 1932, Page 12

TRIAL AIR MAIL.

AUCKLAND TO THE NORTH. FLIGHT ON APRIL 30. SERVICE TO SEVERAL TOWNS. [by TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION*.] WELLINGTON, Friday. In continuance of the series of experimental air mail flights which have been held by the Post and Telegraph Department under the auspices of the New Zealand Air League, a special flight round North Auckland will he run on Saturday, April 30.

The flight will be from Auckland fo Dargavillc and then across the island to Russell, whence the return section of the trip will begin. The mail aeroplane will fly from Russell to Whangarei and then to Auckland. The machine, a SimmondsSpnrtan, will be piloted by SquadronLeader M. C. McGregor, D.F.C., who has flown the other recent air mad seivices. The, time-table provides for the machine to leave Auckland at 11 a.m. and to reach Dargaville at 12.15 p.m., leaving there at 12.45 for Russell, where it is due at 1.30. After a halt, of 20 minutes the machine will go on to Whangarei, where it will arrive half an hour later. It will leave again at 2.30 and arrive in Auckland at 3.45 p.m. The first air mail flight in the Domin ion's history was made from Auckland to Dargaville and back by Flight-Lieu-tenant G. W. Bolt, now pilot engineer to the Wellington Aero Club, in December, 1919, when he was connected with Walsh Brothers' flying school at Kohirnarama.