DOMINION AIR MAIL.

Waikato Times, Volume 116, Issue 19459, 26 December 1934, Page 7

DOMINION AIR MAIL.

DISTRIBUTED IN LONDON.

RECORD CHRISTMAS BUSINESS

United Press Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright.

LONDON, Dec. 24. The Australian and New Zealand air mail is being distributed to-day.

A blue bag containing the Duke of Gloucester's greetings and presents for the Royal Family was included ill Hie mails, which arrived punctually to live rnimilc and within an hour sorters in the Post Ofilce in the shadow ot SI. Paul's were sorting the matter which will be 'delivered in London and Hiroiighoul Britain by the first post on Christmas Day.

Britain's Christmas mails have created a rccprrl. The idlers posted daily in London alone averaged 12,oooiooo, an'd tho parcels 350,000. 1 he Christina's air mails lo India, Australia and Africa weighed 12,80711)., ■compared with 74 9'lb last year. The Observer, commenting on Uho prosper I of a reduction in the air mall postage rales, says il is true that the consent of Hie Dominions is needed lo the financial rea'd'juslmenfs, bul il is scarcely conceivable that I;irv would re.jerl a policy which will bring I hem closer lo European centres and markets. II would be impossible to edimnlc what Hie telephone has done io increase llie wealth of nations, and Hie ;.j r ni,lit will give a corresponding enhercement to all values.