INTERNAL AIR-MAILS
STEADY RISE IN VOLUME . A RECORD WEEK New Zealand's internal air-mail service has been ill operation for six months. and steadily growing business culminated during the week ended September 20 in the record number of 18,3-22 letters being dispatched. The number of letters forwarded during the first week, which ended on March 22 (56,793), was exceptional owing to the novelty aspect of the new service because the figures dropped to 12,470 in the following week. However, thcjje has been a steady improvement- in the demand for this quick mail service between a limited number of centres and. the most recent, weekly total shows that the regular business is now almost 50 per cent in advance of that of the first normal week. The 18,322 letters carried during the week ended September 20 represents a total weight of 6311 b.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19133, 30 September 1936, Page 16
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141INTERNAL AIR-MAILS Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19133, 30 September 1936, Page 16
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