AIR TRAFFIC

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 279, 28 November 1935, Page 2

AIR TRAFFIC

NEW ZEALAND’S GROWING MAIL. Air mail services utilised by the New Zealand Post Office have developed so extensively that the department has issued an air mail schedule for the use of its customers which requires fourteen pages for a description of the general conditions of air carriage of postal matter and particulars of the routes covered. This publication, appropriately printed on sky-blue paper, discloses the surprising fact that 150 countries can be reached by air-mail correspondence from New Zealand. The principal service is weekly via Australia, Singapore, England. When the steamer connections between New Zealand and Australia are suitable, the transit time by air between New Zealand and Great Britain and vice versa is from sixteen to seventeen days. Air-mail correspondence is also accepted in. New Zealand to link up by steamer with the extensive services covering North, South, and Central America and the West Indies. Money-orders can be transmitted from New Zealand to Great Britain and Ireland by air. As for the extent of the air-mail business of the Dominion at the beginning of this year, the average weekly despatch from New Zealand to England totalled 1000 letters, but the postings have since increased to an average of 2500 per week, though at this point the traffic sed?hs to be stationary. Inward air traffic is of approximately the same dimensions, an average taken for the last few months showing weekly arrivals of approximately 2500 letters from Britain, while 150 more come every week from intermediate countries served by the Imperial Airways routes in the East and through the whole length of Africa to Capetown. .