AIR MAILS
.PENNY-HALFPENNY CHARGE. STARTING NEXT MONTH. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. The Premier (the Rt Hon M. J. Savage) announced today that a full Empire air mail service to Australia, carrying all letters at Ijd per halfounce, will commence by flying-boat from Southampton on July 28. From that date Imperial Airways and Qantas Empire Airways will be traversing the whole route between Southampton and Sydney, and will be carrying New Zealand mail. The first flying-boat carrying mail on the all-up basis of lid per half-ounce is expected to leave Sydney on August 9. This will mean that all mail for the United Kingdom and Empire points posted after the regular despatch by the Aorangi, leaving Auckland on July 12, will be despatched via Sydney and placed on the Empire fly-ing-boats.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 June 1938, Page 8
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132AIR MAILS Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 June 1938, Page 8
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