MAILS ON PACIFIC LINERS
SORTING ON BOARD DISCONTINUED AUCKLAND, June 28. Action was taken by the Post and Telegraph Department yesterday to terminate the sorting of mail on board the Canadian-Australian Royal Mail liners and the two officials who have been regularly employed on board the Aorangi have been transferred to the Staff of tihe Auckland Chief Post Office. It Is expected that the Niagara's mail officials will come ashore when ghe reaches Auckland from Vancouver on July 25. The move is made in anticipation of the early linking of New Zealand with the Empire air mail service via Australia as a considerable diversion of New Zealand mail from the pacific route to the Australia-England air line is exnected.
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Southland Times, Issue 23548, 30 June 1938, Page 12
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119MAILS ON PACIFIC LINERS Southland Times, Issue 23548, 30 June 1938, Page 12
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