MAILS ON SUNDAYS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 482, 15 April 1909, Page 7

MAILS ON SUNDAYS.

03 THE WORK SAID TO BE UNAVOIDABLE. 0 (iiV TELEGIUm—PRESS ASSOCIATION.) ;! Auckland, April 14. The Auckland Presbytery discussed a pro- „ posal by the Rev. l\lr. Millar, expressing disapproval of tlio practice recently instituted of closing mails for tho south on Sunday ovoning, this involving what ho declared to ® bo unnecessary work for post office employees, g Tho matter was referred to tho 'Committee on Public Morals, with authority to approach . the Postmaster-General on tho subject. Mr. Dryden, .Acting--Postmaster, lias stated in reply that _ ho visited . Wellington and discussed with the authoj rities a matter connected with tho disy patch and distribution of Trunk Railway i, mails involving Sunday work at tho post >, office. If tho best possible scrrico was to bo -, given tho public tho mail for the south must I. close on Sunday evening. The mail which i- arrived from Wellington on Sunday morning I' was distributed among tho private letter- , boxes by' two men, wiio employed for three or four hours. This gave commercial men an opportunity to pernio their corres- , pondonco and reply tho same day. Tho head office approved of the arrangement made. If d tliero was any difference of opinion, it was r, whether they had gone far enough—whether , they should not also havo had a .Sunday i--. clearance of tho street letter-boxes. In any case, the Sunday work involved was iii- > finitesiinal. tl ■— ii.ll .