DAY BY DAY

Waikato Times, Volume 89, Issue 13815, 20 July 1918, Page 4

DAY BY DAY

The saving of time which the aerial post will bring about is verv Tie j, reat even ju a j and ol Ui^ Aerial trams like America. Bin Post. it i s i n overseas work that . the saving of time will be nothing sort of revolutionary. A cable message to the Sydney Sun last week quoted the Aeroplane" as savin" that . postal and even passenger 'serT vices on ocean routes a'o practicable now. London could he ' -<ri,t w j t j,_ in five clays of Sydnev, <■ ;• .; ,"<») \ u .',/.,. of Capetown and Hongkong, within 4$ hours of Ottawa, and within 32 hours of Bagdad. The Sydnev route would pass through Paris, Marseilles and Koine, across the Balkans, Greece, Cyprus and Mesopotamia, through Calcutta, and across the Malay Peninsula Ihe Aeroplane added that the flight to America from Ireland, by way of Newfoundland, was expected to" he made shortly. One day, i foubi an Auckland resident will be, able to seiitl a letter to Wellington bv the 8 a.m express «nd receive a reply by lunch {- m, °- If the reply is unsatisfactory, he mil be able to run down himself after lunch, and attend to the matter in person returning i n time f <>y jlmier