AIR MAIL TO NEW GUINEA

Pahiatua Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 13820, 30 March 1938, Page 3

AIR MAIL TO NEW GUINEA

About the middle of April a permanent air-mail service is to be inaugurated by the Australian Post Office between the Commonwealth and its mandated territory of New Guinea, via Papua, and it will be possible to send letters by this means from New Zealand to Port Moresby (Papua) and Rabaul (New Guinea). The rate from New Zealand will be 4d per half ounce for letters and 2d for postcards. The air-mail rate from New Guinea and Papua to New Zealand will be 3d per half ounce (the usual charge in Australia for inland air mails) plus the ordinary postage wiiich is 2d p§£ ounce. Rabaul is "just over 2,100 miles from Sydney and the route will be covered by the air services once in , each direction weekly, the ’planes leaving Sydney at 7 a.m. on Tuesday. reaching Port Moresby the following day end arriving at Rabaul at 10 a.m. on Thursday. The return journey will commence from Rabaul on Fridays and be completed i n Sydney at 5.30 p.m. on Sunday. Regular stops will be made on each journey at Salamaua, New Guinea. As philatelists will be interested in this extension of air-mail services, the Post Office advises that where return covers are required i,t will be necessary to despatch a l emittance to tlie Administration concerned for payment of return postage, as New Zealand stamps cannot be used.