DISTRIBUTING AIR MAIL
USING DEFENCE MACHINES COMMENT BY MINISTER [BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION] WELLINGTON, Friday Comment was made to-day by the Hon. .J. G. Cobbe, Minister of Defence, 011 the arrangements now completed for the distribution of the air mail on the arrival in New Plymouth of Mr. C. T. P. Ulnvs machine Faith in Australia. The use of service aeroplanes, said the Minister, had been authorised to distribute the air mail due to arrive at New Plymouth 011 Wednesday. The aeroplanes would be used to transport the mail from New Plymouth to Auckland and Wellington, and possibly Christchurch. Should the South Island portion of the mail be small, and the time of arrival permit, a machine from Wigram aerodrome would carry it on its homeward journey. Mr. Cobbe added that quite apart from the interest philatelists took in air mail stamps, it was evident from the large number of letters carried on earlier trips of the Faith in Australia and Southern Cross that there were many people who would appreciate the expedition of the delivery of the mails by arrangements it had now been found practicable to make.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21769, 7 April 1934, Page 12
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