AIR MAILS
RAPID TRANSPORT
AMERICAN SERVICES
The facilities which arc being afforded by air travel for rapid transport are well illustrated in letters which have ■been received by Mr J. Maitland Paxton, of Sydney, from Valparaiso .(Chile) and from New York. “We have a regular -air service,” the writer of the Valparaiso letter states, “between Valparaiso and New York in seven days and between Valparaiso and London in nine or 10 days. Some'time; ago we received by a powerful French plane some letters from Scotland which were posted in Glasgow on May 25 and delivered in Valparaiso on the morning of May .10.”
The letter from New York runs: “The new air mail service between New York and Santiago (Chile) lands its mail in six days. It is understood that day and night flying with planes having a cruising speed 125 miles to 150 miles per hour is in contemplation, so it is conccivablo that in the not far distant future it will be possible to .leave New . York and arrive in Santiago in something under two days’ time.”
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18546, 5 November 1934, Page 7
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179AIR MAILS Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18546, 5 November 1934, Page 7
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