BELATED MAILS.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 603, 3 September 1909, Page 4

BELATED MAILS.

•./action BY CHAMBER OF.COMMERCE. V ' '"■ln "regard-to the repeated'.failure.'■■of: boat!-. - ; from' Sydney carrying the English mail to eon- I nect at Auckland with the cspress train for the ~ ; south, Mr. S: Carroll, soorctary' of the-Cham- j bar of Commerce,'"lias addressed, tho following . > letter to the Postmastcr-Gcneval:—''.. ■■■-'■ ,- . "Sir,—lam instructed'to call ,y.our.attention f to tho frequency—almost'amounting to abso. ■ , lute regularity—of tho occurrence of the or-'.: riral of tho U.S.S. Company's s.s. Mokoia at. : Auckland on the fortnightly trips from Syd- : iioy too late to allow Of tho mails being trane-l fcrrcd to the through train leaving" the-samo. T'day for tho southern, centres. ,&.■ delay of ■.•»"'":' j;■• full day is thus caused in the receipt of Australian, British, and other mails at all places' -,> south of Auckland, to the manifest.incottveni-. ' . once of the mercantile community. This feat." )•.;■ ure is rendered tho more striking by the fact. j. that the intermediate steamer usually— in: faot | .practically always—arrives; in time to transfel ' its mails the same day.' I;am .instructed to I ask you to be goodenough to caueo inefhixy to-: J be. made .into the :ci'reumstanccD with the view: j of taking such steps as shall cause astop to be: j put to this serious inconvenience.—l havo' th« nonour to be,' sir, your. most obedient' servant, I 6. Carroll, '. :