AERIAL MAILS.

Taranaki Daily News, 10 March 1920, Page 8

AERIAL MAILS.

FROM AUSTRALIA TO NEW ZEALAND? POSTAL DEPARTMENT HAS NO INFORMATION. The Postmaster-General, the Hon- J. G. Coates, was interviewed by a Wellington Times representative with reference to the Sydney cablegram stating that the Australasian Aerial Transport Company will shortly be registered at Melbourne with a capital of £700,000 to establish passenger, cargo and mail services between Australia and New Zealand. The Minister stated that so far the department had not been communicated with on the matter; but, of course, it would be prepared to coneider any proposal that might be made for an inter-Colonial aerial mail service.

Mr. W. R. Morris, secretary to the Post Office, who was also seen by a Times reporter, said that the department had no information on the subject of any proposal on the part of the Commonwealth authorities to establish communication with New Zealand by means of airplanes. If the Commonwealth Government chose to send its mails down here by airplanes, of course our Postal Department would receive them. The Commonwealth mtgftt send them in that way, but the department had no information on the mattpr. The promoters of the company must have received some encouragement from the Australian Government, he would say, to warrant the registration of a company with a capital of £700,000.