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NO NECESSITY FOE IT HERE. Sir James Allen, as Acting-Prime Minister, has stated that the first duty Lieutenant-Colonel AV. Bettington, R.A.F., will have to perform will be to report on the matter of an aerial postal service. Some postal officials have been consulted on what they think of the prospect of aerial postal services in New Zealand. The answering smile was sufficient tq convey their thoughts on the matter.
"I can-' conceive an urgent servico by aeroplane between Washington and New York or Boston, r,r Chicago to Now York." said one postal official, "but, knowin? pretty well all there is to know about it, I cannot see any necessity for the Initiation of an' aerial postal service in New/Zealand. It is all very well to say that the journey will be made from AA'ellington to Auckland in six or seven hours,, but, supposing that to be the case, it will only give people hero a few more hours to -/rite in, and they would have to nay very bis fees, and (lie country very heavy expenditure to maintain an air service for the carriage of mails. "Of course, there are those who arc always ready to fasten on to a new tl'i'ig. It gives them something to play with, but, important as wo think we are, I do not think that the country is far enough advanced to wa»t an aerial postal service. Thp cry of deliveries by aj.r to the back-blocks settlers is too ridiculous to argue about. , "
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 156, 27 March 1919, Page 6
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250AERIAL-POST Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 156, 27 March 1919, Page 6
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