LARGE AIR MAIL

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23142, 14 September 1938, Page 12

LARGE AIR MAIL

DELIVERY AT AUCKLAND TRANSTASMAN SERVICE ACCUMULATION IN SYDNEY A heavy accumulation of Empire air ( mails, the first shipment to reach Auckland since September 5, arrived yesterday morning from New Plymouth after being brought from Sydney by the cargo steamer.Waiotapu. Comprising despatches from London on August 25, 27 and 28, the mail formed a sub. stantial portion of the total of 118 bags of English and Australian mail brought by the steamer for Auckland. * In addition, 54 bags of Australian mail arrived in the morning from Sydney by the Wanganella. A further inward mail is being car* ried from Sydney by the Maunganui, due at Wellington on Friday. The steamer has air mail which left London on September 1, that dated September 3 having missed the connection at Sydney. The Maunganui's mail TiMa delivered here on Saturday. ' • -U < Difficulties experienced by the .General Post Office in London in fixing a . mail-closing date or tim? for the Empire service to Australia are referred to in a message from the London cor- . respondent of the Herald. At present mail flying-boats leave Southampton on Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays, and as soon as the complement for any one machine is received' no more mail can - be added. For this reason correspondents have< been advised to post three or four days before the departure of the mails. It has taken 18 months for the South African all-up service to have a definitely ' scheduled closingtime, and eight months has been required for the Indian mails.