AIR MAIL ARRIVES
MANY PACKETS AND LETTERS. ROYAL BAG FLOWN SOUTH. By Telegraph—Press Association. Auckland, Last Night. The Dominion section of the third Empire air mail, which left England on December 22 and failed to reach Sydney before the Monowai sailed on January 4, arrived at Auckland by the Mariposa on Saturday morning. The mail consisted of 1727 packets and letters and included a bag of correspondence for the Duke of Gloucester and the Royal Staff. Shortly after the Mariposa berthed the Royal mail was taken to the Mangere aerodrome in a motor-car and was flown to Invercargill by an Air Force machine piloted by Flight-Lieutenant S. Wallingford.
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Taranaki Daily News, 14 January 1935, Page 5
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