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Southland Times, Issue 23047, 14 November 1936, Page 9

Schedules are now provided at all the principal post offices in the Dominion showing the most suitable mails for overseas Christmas communications. The latest times for posting in New Zealand are given, together with the dates of arrival at destinations. To obviate the first rush always associated with despatching overseas mails, the Post Office announced some time ago that the best despatch for Christmas presents to Great Britain, Ireland and Europe would be by the Wairangi, leaving Auckland to-morrow. This mail closed in Invercargill yesterday, and will reach London on December 14. The next direct mail to the. United Kingdom will be by the Rangitiki on November 15. This will reach London on December 22. For those who wait till the last minute before thinking of gifts for friends overseas, the air mail will prove useful. Full details of all mail deliveries will be supplied at the Post Office. An all-metal Douglas D.C.2 transport monoplane is carried on the deck cargo of the freighter Hauraki, which arrived in Wellington last week from Auckland, en route to Australia. The Douglas is bound for Australia, where it will be used on one of the major air lines. Since the ban on American aircraft in the Commonwealth was lifted many modern, efficient, all-metal machines from the United States have been imported into the country, and recently a Lockheed Electra machine passed through Wellington on the way to Australia. The Douglas on the Hauraki has been packed with the utmost care, the aluminium-alloy skin having been smeared with grease, and the seams closed up with adhesive tape.