AIR MAILS FROM ENGLAND
— Bridging the Tasman big expenditure INVOLVED
Transport of air mails across the Tasman has not yet been discussed by the New Zealand Government, as a policy question for the Cabinet. Asked yesterday if there was any prospect of an extension of the England-Australia air mail across the Tasman Sea to New Zealand, the Prime Minister, the Rt. Hon. G. IV. Forbes, said the question was one for the Postmaster-General, the Hon. Adam Hamilton (who is in Dunedin).
Such transport would cost a great deal, added the Prime Minister, who said he was not inclined to think that the time saved would warrant the extra cost. He pointed out that the saving would not be very great unless the mail aeroplanes from England to Australia arrived in the Commonwealth just too late to connect with the trans-Tasman steamer services. The mails could, ot’ course, be transported across the Tasman in a flay, but the whole question depended on how much we were prepared to pay for such a service.
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 92, 12 January 1935, Page 8
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172AIR MAILS FROM ENGLAND Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 92, 12 January 1935, Page 8
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