INLAND AIR MAILS

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21210, 3 December 1938, Page 13

INLAND AIR MAILS

NEW RECORD ESTABLISHED By Telegraph- Tress Association WELLINGTON, December 1. The volume of air mall carried by commercial aeroplanes operating on New’ Zealand services continues to show a steady increase, and during November a new record was established for inland air mails in the Dominion. Between November 14 and November 20, postings exceeded 50,000 letters, the highest total recorded for one week since the inception of regular air mail services in New Zealand. In March, 1936, when the Union Airways Palmerston North-Blenheim-Christchurch-Dunedin service was inaugurated, only 12.000 letters were carried by air. The average number of air mail letters posted before November 14, 1938, was about 46,000 each week, though during the week ended November 6, 1938. postings were slightly in excess of 49,000. Outward English air mail posted under the all-up scheme for transit by air between Sydney and London is also increasing in quantity. When the Awatea left Auckland on Wednesday she carried the largest English air mail yet posted in New Zealand, the total weight of the consignment being 41391 b. The mail is due at London n December 19 in ample time for full distribution in the United Kingdom before Christmas. “The fact that the Awatea’s mail was so heavy indicates that people are posting early this Christmas,” said a. postal official today. November was a record month for outward English air mail, and a tctal of 14,8871 b of first-class matter left New Zealand during that period. In October 71311 b of English air mail was dispatched from the Dominion. For the previous month the postings totalled 84481 b, and in August, the first month of the all-up scheme, 94121 b of air mail left New eZaland.