OVERSEAS AIRMAIL
New Service Introduced
’J'he introduction of a new overseas airmail service lias been announced by the Postmaster-General, Mr. Webb. He said that airmail correspondence for the United Kingdom, South Africa, Northern and Southern Rhodesia, British East and British West African countries and Gibraltar could now be posted at a rate of 1/6 each half-ounce. Articles prepaid at this rate should 'be superscribed “Via Australia.” The Minister said that correspondence intended for transmission by this service would have to be given sea transit over part of the route, and unfortunately it was not possible to give even probable transmission times for the new service. The public would appreciate that the vessels engaged in the sea link of the service might be delayed on account of unforeseen circumstances; but with good connexions en route there was every reason to suppose that the service would be satisfactory. The existing 2/6 and 3/6 rate airmail services to the United- Kingdom (which also involved surface transit across a long ocean section of the route) were being maintained. In normal circumstances, those routes should offer some advantage in transmission time over the new 1/6 route. .
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 237, 4 July 1944, Page 4
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191OVERSEAS AIRMAIL Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 237, 4 July 1944, Page 4
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