EMPIRE AIR MAIL

Wairarapa Times-Age, 16 August 1938, Page 5

EMPIRE AIR MAIL

MESSAGE FROM THE KING (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. The Governor-General, Viscount Galway, has received from His Majesty the King the following message which' was forwarded by the first airmail of "the recently-inaugurated Empire scheme: — “I am glad to be able to convey my congratulations and good wishes to the people of New Zealand by the first airrhail of the Empire scheme in which the Dominion now participates. ,“I hope that it will not, be many months before the crossing of the Tasman Sea by air will be established, for a regular British service from England to New Zealand—half-way round the world—will, I feel sure, be of great value both to the Dominion and the Mother Country. “GEORGE, R. 1.”

TASMAN SERVICE START EARLY NEXT YEAR EXPECTED BRISBANE, August 15. Mr G. Pascoe, Acting Commissioner of the steel industry in New Zealand, who arrived from England by the Empire flying-boat, said that the commencement of a flying-boat service between Sydney and Auckland early in 1939 was regarded in official circles as fairly certain. ' He added that all that was required to be done was to settle finally the New Zealand terminal. That should not take very long, and with its completion he could see nothing to hinder the opening of the services.