TASMAN FLIGHTS.

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12616, 7 April 1934, Page 5

TASMAN FLIGHTS.

DISTRIBUTION OF MAILS. Electric Teleizranh—Press Association WELLINGTON, Last Night. The enterprise of Sir Charles Kingsford Smith and Mr C. T. P. Ulni in pioneering the carriage of mails 111 tlie Southern Cross and Faith in Australia between Australia and New Zealand will rei*eive a further fillip by arrangements now completed for the distribution of air-mail on its arrival in New Plymouth to some of the principal centres of the Dominion by Air Force machines of the Dedence Department. “The use of service aeroplanes,” said the Minister of Defence, “has been authqrised to distribute transTasman air-mails due to arrive at New Plymouth on Wednesday be the Faith in Australia. ’Planes will be used for the transport of mails from New Plymouth to Auckland and Wellington, and possibly Christchurch. Should the South Island portion of tlie mail be small and the time of arrival jierniit, a machine from Wigram aerodrome will t arry it on its homeward journev.

Mr Cobbe added that, quite apart from the interest philatelists took in air-mail stamps, it was evident, troin the largo number of letters carried in the initial trips of the Faith in Australia and the Southern (Voss, that there lore many relatives and friends residing in tlie two countries. They would. no doubt, appreciate the expedition of tlie delivery of tlie mails by the arrangement it had now been found practicable to make.