AIR MAILS ARRIVE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 24, 24 December 1932, Page 7

AIR MAILS ARRIVE.

’PLANES AT MILSON. Alilson' Aerodrome was an important junction to-day for the Christmas air mail flights, and all ’planes engaged in the North Island service made the landing at Palmerston North. The first machine to arrive was A.C.Y., piloted hv Flying-Officer Gelrand', who had left Gisborne at daylight and experienced rain nearly all tlio wav. He flew through the Manawatu Gorge in order to get under the clouds. Flying-Officer Buckeridge, piloting A C 0., was next to arrive from Wellington, to he followed shortly afterwards bv Mr R. A. Kirkup, who had left Auckland at daylight in A.C.M., calling in at New Plymouth en route. After picking up the mail from the Limited express and the Gisborne and Napier mails, Flying-Officer Buckeridge left for the south. Squadron-Leader Stedman, in A.A.S., later arrived with the mails off the Lyttelton ferry service and after his mails were sorted by the postal officials, the ’planes ACY. and A.O.M. left for Gisborne and Auckland respectively, while Squadron-Leader Stedman returned to Wellington.