TASMAN AIR MAILS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 82, 7 April 1934, Page 10

TASMAN AIR MAILS

SPEEDING UP DELIVERY. USE OF AIR FORCE MACHINES. [ Per Press Association. 1 WELLINGTON, April 6. The enterprise of Sir Charles Kingsford Smith and Mr. C. T. P. Ulin in pioneering the carriage of mails in the Southern Cross and the Faith in Australia between Australia and New Zealand, will receive a further fillip by arrangements now completed for the distribution of air mail on arrival in New Plymouth to some of the principal centres of the Dominion by Air Force machines of the Defence Department. The project of the Defence Department helping the Post and Telegraph Department in delivering quickly the eagerly-looked-forward-to air mail in both Islands, has been receiving consideration by the Minister of Defence (Hon. J. G. Cobbe) for some time, and the Minister stated this evening that it had now been found possible for 'the Air Force branch of the Defence Department to link up in the enterprise of demonstrating the possibilities of air mails. ‘‘The use of service aeroplanes,’’ said the Minister, “Ims been authorised to distribute the transtasman air mails due to arrive at New Plymouth on Wednesday by the Faith in Australia. The ’plane?; will be used for the transport of mails from New Plymouth to Auckland and Wellington, and possibly Christchurch. Should the South Island portion of the mail be small, and the time of arrival permit, the machine from Wigram aerodrome will carry it on its homeward journey.” Mr. Cobbe added that quite apart from the interest philatelists took In air mail stamps, it was evident from the large number of letters carried in the injtial trips of the Faith in Australia and the Southern Cross, that there were many relatives find friends residing in the two countries that would no doubt appreciate the expedition of the delivery of ’the mails bv the arrangement it had now been found practicable to make.