AIR MAIL VENTURE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18397, 15 May 1934, Page 5

AIR MAIL VENTURE

AUSTRALIA-NEW GUINEA ULM’S LATEST PROJECT MELBOURNE, May 14. Plans for the first experimental air mail from Australia to New Guinea are announced by the Postal Department. The flight is being made by Mr. Charles Ulm in the Faith in Australia monoplane, leaving Melbourne about 4 a.m. oil June 16, via Sydney, Brisbane, Cairns, and Port Moresby, arriving on June 18, and returning four days later. Commenting on the cable message Mr. Ulm stated that he had received an official announcement that the Government had accepted his offer to make an air mail flight just before leaving Sydney. New Guinea, he said, was growing- greatly in importance and a regular air mail service would soon be a necessity'. “I see tremendous possibilities in it,” he continued, “and I am pleased to be making the flight. It .wul be a new experience for me, and should do much in developing the route. This first flight, of coursb, is rather, like the ones 1 have made to New Zealand, in that it will start at establishing something, and it will be up to the Government to decide how quickly a regular service can be set going.”