London-Paris.  

An interesting project for speedier transmission of special airmail between London and Paris is mentioned in the “Daily News,” which should get valuable support from commercial and banking interests. This scheme would enable urgent letters, surcharged 9d each, to be delivered in Paris or London in less than five hours after posting. Posted in airmail boxes, the letters would be sent by special messengers immediately upon arrival. It is estimated that, to make the scheme pay, 5,000 of these air dispatches would have to be the minimum daily mail in each direction. Small monoplanes capable of carrying up to 2,500 letters at a speed of ninety miles per hour and requiring little garage space and fuel consumption, are the basis of the scheme, which, if successfully operated would require twenty of them in daily commission.

A Commercial and Historical Atlas of the World’s Airways.  

The growing interest in the airmail services of the world, either from a philatelic point of view or from a commercial point of view, has prompted Messrs. Francis J. Field Ltd to issue an interesting and instructive book on the subject.

        The book contains about forty maps of various air routes and every known air route is dealt with from the Paris balloon posts of 1870 to the present day. In addition to these, every other branch of Commercial Aviation is touched upon and the book gives a comprehensive view of this new and important activity. Well printed on serviceable paper, with a neat blue cover, this publication should prove of inestimable value to all interested in aviation or aero-philately.

New Zealand: Mr Alington of Ashburton has shown us a sheet of the current 1d Dominion on the new Cowan paper which has broad arrows on the top selvedge between the 6th and 7th, 12th and 13th, and 18th and 19th rows to facilitate the division of the sheets by the postal officials. The sheet numbers are also different from those on the early stock of the Cowan paper as the letter is smaller and is without serifs.