AIR MAIL FACILITIES

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22388, 7 April 1936, Page 15

AIR MAIL FACILITIES

DOMINION CONNECTIONS LETTERS FOR THE ORIENT Correspondence can now be sent from New Zealand by air mail to more than 150 countries, using first the steamship links across the Tasman or the Pacific. China has just been added to the list, an Imperial Airways weekly service having been established from Penang, Malaya, to Hongkong, connecting with the Sydney-Croydon air route. A short steamer transit from Hongkong to Canton gives connection with the inland Chinese air mail services, reaching Shanghai and a number of other important centres. It is estimated that the transit time for air mail letters from New Zealand, connecting with the usual Friday intercolonial steamer to Sydney, will be 11 days to Hongkong, a saving of 20 days over ordinary means of transport, while the saving by air transit of correspondence to Shanghai will be 22 days. Further air mail facilities in Africa are also 'iavailable to New Zealanders. The routes of Imperial Airways have been recently extended from Khartoum to Kano, Nigeria, El Obeid El Faslier and Geneina, British Sudan, and Fort Lamy, French Equatorial Africa.