AIRGRAPH SERVICE
♦ RAPIDLY GAINING FAVOUR. GREAT INCREASE IN NUMBER OF MESSAGES. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. The Postmaster-General, Mr Webb, stated that since the inauguration of the outward airgraph service from New Zealand to Canada and the United Kingdom, and up to June 8, 70,506 angraph messages have been despatched. There have been 24,789 messages to the forces and 15,697 civilian messages to the United Kingdom, 23,816 messages to the forces in the Middle East, and 6,204 messages to Canada. At the commencement of the service the number of messages forwarded from all over New Zealand averaged 1,500 a week. The number now is about 9,000 a week. Up to June 8, 75.236 inward messages had been received. The, outward mails averaged 15.3 days in transmission to Canada, 17.7 days to the United Kingdom and 23 days to the Middle East.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 June 1943, Page 4
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142AIRGRAPH SERVICE Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 June 1943, Page 4
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