Despite the fact that Sir Charles Kingsford Smith chose New' Plymouth as the landing place after his late trans-Tasman flight, and that Mr C. T. P. Ulm has endorsed Sir Charles’s opinion by himself deciding to land there. New' Plymouth is not quite so prominent on the map of the world as some people might think. A letter from Ireland addressed to Mr E. Cawthray, Devon Street, New Plymouth, first travelled to New York, then to New Plymouth (Ohio), on to New Plymouth (Idaho), before enterprising American postal authorities finally discovered the location of the rightful addressee.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXIV, Issue 935, 4 December 1933, Page 8
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