DOMINION AIR MAILS
REVIEW OF SEVEN WEEKS (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. Last week was the best for air mail returns that the Post and Telegraph Department has had since the service was introduced on the Palmerston NorthDunediu and the Wellington-Blenheim-Nelson runs, excepting the first week when the postings were abnormal because of the extraordinary interest on the first two clays by philatelists throughout New Zealand. The number of letters carried by air mail each week has been: First week, 36.793; second week, 12,470; third week, 14,189; fourth week, 11,776; fifth week, 10,936; sixth week, 12,402; seventh week, 15,993. In addition 3722 overseas air mail letters have been distributed through New Zealand, without extra charge to the addressees, on delivery by ship from Australia.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19009, 8 May 1936, Page 5
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125DOMINION AIR MAILS Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19009, 8 May 1936, Page 5
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