AIR MAILS
SERVICES. IN AUSTRALIA
(From "The • Post's" Representative.) SYDNEY, 13 th February.
The introduction, towards the end of this month, of the new air mail service between Camooweal, • Queensland, and Daly Waters, North providjing, with connecting services, a fast ! weekly, mail service by air between Sydiney and Darwin, means the bridging of one of the last big gaps in an almost complete chain of air mails right round the most remote fringes of Australia. It also means a saving .of from three to five, weeks, in the carriage of mails between Sydney and Darwin, especially if one just misses an-outgoing steamer.
A letter posted in Sydney for Daly Waters now takes a circnitous and long course, either via Adelaide or via Darwin. It is a matter of weeks. The postal authorities are surprised that, in days when time is money, so little advantage is taken of existing air mail services by the business* community. Another noteworthy fact is that many business people are making the mistake—a. costly, one for the recipients of affixing on letters by air only the air'stamp of 3d, and not the ordinary postage as well. The air mail fees received by the Post Office from one of these services amount only to about 30s a month—not enough to pay the pilot's wages for one trip.' .■
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 42, 19 February 1930, Page 10
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220AIR MAILS Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 42, 19 February 1930, Page 10
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