The men in camp at Jackson's Bay, j„ south Westlund, receive all their correspondence by air mail. Once a Week the mail is flown by Air Travel (N.Z.), Limited, from Hokitika to Okuru, where it is picked up toy the camp launch. For the three months from January 1\ to March 31, 20001 b. of mail was carried to and from Okuru, and Mr. J. C. Mercer reports that the weigh.! for the first three weeks of April was 12001 b. The aeroplane is the only transport available in Smith Weslland, through which the new highway to connect with the road over the Haast Pass Lorn Otago is being gradually built.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19623, 5 May 1938, Page 6
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