'The heaviest Christmas' air malls ever despatched from Great Britain /were carried by Imperial air services following the recent reduction in the Empire postage rates.
The Postmaster-General, Sir Henry Kingsley Wood, announced to-day that the letter air mails sent on the England-India-Australia and the England-South Africa services weighed 12807 Ib, and consisted of approxiimately $20,000 letters, as compared with 7491 1b, or approximately 180,000 letters in the Christmas air mails in 1933, Despatches to the Union of South Africa had, he said, increased by 193 per cent; those fo India by 30° per cent, to Malaya by 332 per cent. and to' East Africa and Rhodesia by 39 per cent, while Australia had received the first [Christmas mails weighing 1.602 Ib.
In addition, 2,208 Ib. of parcels had [been carried by Imperial air services as compared with 1,752 last year—Reuter,
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