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’PLANE FROM LINER NEW YORK, Sept, 10. Tho special European mail from the North German Lloyd liner Europa was delivered in. New York by seaplane today in the record time of 3 days 21 hours after the vessel left Cherbourg. The plane was catapulted from the deck of the Europa at 10 o’clock yesterday morning, when the vessel was 1275 miles away. It arrived here about 0 a.m. to-day after stopping at Sydney, Nova Scotia, to refuel. Tho Europa’s regular mails will not be landed here until to-morrow afternoon. Officials of the steamship company announce that henceforth planes will leave the Europa and her sister ship, the Bremen, two days away from port so that the special European mail can be delivered here regularly within four days of the ship’s departure from the other side of the Atlantic.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17609, 27 October 1931, Page 4
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140MAIL RECORD Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17609, 27 October 1931, Page 4
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