EMPIRE AIR MAILS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18235, 2 November 1933, Page 9

EMPIRE AIR MAILS

AUSTRALIAN SERVICE speeding' i;p possiple (Pur Truss Association.) WELLINGTON. last. night, The fiiet flint I lie air mail .service ' ".■'Mvi'cn Sydney ami London, to ■which the New Zealand Go vermncnt has amoved to cent ribufe £SOOO, may take t»nl v Id days instead of 13 days, as previously announced, was mentioned by the Postmastor-General, the Hon. A. Hamilton, in an interview this evoui no. Ho also said that the published statements that correspondence forwarded to England by tlie Matson steamer and Ihovn across America might- reach Loudon in 21 days, if a <pib-k connection with an Atlantic steamer wen? made, wore coii'i'ct. The air route across America was little used, however, for New Zealand correspondence, and those who desired to make use of the Matson lioat appeared to forget that, it was very heavily subsidised by the American Government to compete with British vessels. Air Hamilton said that, assuming connections were good a three-day trip across the Tasman could be expected, and thus give a 19-day mail service with Loudon. “Any suggestion that we should represent the need for a faster air service between England and Australia, might readily bring the rejoiner that u.-ually the person who pays least makes the most noise. Appaiently the relative smallness of our contribution towards the service is not realised. ’ ’