TASMAN AIR MAILS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18366, 7 April 1934, Page 14

TASMAN AIR MAILS

tT FASTER DELIVERY AIR FORCE CO-OPERATION (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, last night. The enterprise of Sir Charles Kmgsford Smith and -Mr. Charles Ulm in pioneering the carriage of mails in the Southern Cross and Faith in Australia, between Australia and New Zealand, will receive a,further fillip by arrangements qow completed for the distribution of the air mail on arrival in New Plymouth to some of the principal centres of the Dominion by Air F„orce machines of the Defence Department. The project of the Defence Department in helping the Post and Telegraph Department -in delivering quickly the eagerly looked-forward- to- air mail in both islands .had been receiving consideration by the Minister of Defence, the Hon. J. G. Cobbe, for some time, and the Minister stated this evening that it had now been found possible for the Air Force branch of the Defence Department to link up in the enterprise of demonstrating the possibilities of air mails. The use of. service aeroplanes, said the Minister, had been authorised to distribute trans-Tasman air mails-*which are due jto arrive at New Plymouth on Wednesday by, the Faith,in.Australia. Planes will -be used for the transport of the mails from New Plymouth to Auckland, Wellington and possibly Christchurch. Should the South Island portion of the mail be small, and the time of arrival permit, a machine from Wigram aerodrome will carry it on its homeward journey. Mr. Cobbe added that, quite apart from the interest philatelists took in the air mail stamps, it was evident from the large number of letters carried -in the initial trips of the Faith in Australia and the Southern Cross that there were many relatives and friends residing in the two countries who would no doubt appreciate' the expedition of the delivery of the' mails by the arrangement it had now been found practicable to make.