AIR MAILS.
INCREASING POPULARITY. Steady progress in the use of the air for the rapid dispatch of correspondence is shown in the records of the Post Office both in respect to inland and overseas air mails. For the first time since the inception of inland airmail services, the total number of letters handled in a week exceeded 20,(MH) for the week ended November 15. ( There -were three previous occasions when the postings touched 19,000' per week, and this survey excludes the “novelty” rush when the service was inaugurated last March and 36,793 communications went by air in the first week. Outward dispatches on the AustraliaSingapore air route to the United Kingdom and the Continent totalled 10,ISO in October, 1935, but the business has been improving week by week in a very steady manner until last October’s total was 21,784. The latter figure was actually in excess of the 1 temporary rise in May, 1935, when the I Silver Jubilee mail was dispatched. In the reverse direction, air-mail correspondence is practically as large as New Zealand’s contribution to the business.
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Wairarapa Age, 1 December 1936, Page 6
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