AIR MAIL SERVICE
ENGLAND AND AUSTRALIA (Special to Daily Times.) AUCKLAND. September 20. The first trip in the Englnnd-Australian air mail service will be made in December. No arrangements have been announced to enable letters for New Zealand to reach the Dominion before Christmas, but it is understood there is a possibility of this being done. It is hoped that' in the next few weeks plans will be made by which the Dominion section of the mail will be brought from Australia by air and distributed to the main centres by similar means, resulting in letters which leave London on December 8 being delivered in New Zealand a day or two before Christmas. There are similar expectations concerning the mail from New Zealand to connect with an air liner .scheduled to leave Brisbane for England on December 10. This mail is due in London 14 days later. It is understood that two concerns intend approaching the department in New Zealand with schemes for trans-Tasman flights. Trips would probably be made on a similar bgsis to the air mail flights of Sir Charles Kingsford Smith and Mr C. P. Ulm. The possibility of a special New ZeaInad stamp being issued to mark the occasion has also been mentioned. The issue of a new Is 6d stamp for the use of the Australia-England service has been arranged in the Commonwealth.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 22373, 21 September 1934, Page 10
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228AIR MAIL SERVICE Otago Daily Times, Issue 22373, 21 September 1934, Page 10
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