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NEW AIR MAIL SERVICE HD RATE TO ENGLAND (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. The Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. M. J. Savage, announced to-day that a full Empire air mail service to Australia carrying all letters at Ud per half-ounce will commence by flyingboat from Southampton on July 28. From that date, Imperial Airways and Qantas Empire Airways will be traversing the whole route between Southampton and Sydney and will be carrying New Zealand mail. The first flying-boat carrying mail on the ail-up basis of lid per halfounce is expected to leave Sydney on August 9. This will mean that all mail for the United Kingdom ana Empire points posted after the regular despatch by the Aorangi, leaving Auckland on July 12, will be despatched via Sydney and placed on the Empire flying-boats.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19667, 27 June 1938, Page 7
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