MAIL SERVICES.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 694, 20 December 1909, Page 7

MAIL SERVICES.

OPINION. OF MR. BART KENT. Illy Teloßrapli-SBcr.lat Ourro«Dootfeotl • ■ : Auckland, December 18. ' comment to offer on the Prime Minister's statement Tegardin? the mail services, Mr..Bart Kent, 'president of the • Auckland-Chamber of 'Commerce, said that he could but reiterate that the only mail service .for ; Auoklarid and New Zealand was ■ the San'Fmetseb service, arid it was pleasing that the .Prime; Minister was"keeping this in view The Tahiti, .Fiji, and 'Vancouver-service# ali ■possessed, varying: degrees .of merit, and were all . right as 'supplementary services, but they could not take>the. place of the San. Francisco service. The same remark, applied to the Suez 6emce, whicli,, though a good one. for Aus-. tralia,- was not nearly so ■ beneficial to . New Zealand. • He had; strong hope that the San Frniicisco service would be re-established with-' .out any great!loss of, time. He had that day heard a gentleman, largely •'interested', in tho shipping trade in New York, and, with considerable influence,' express the opinion that the.President of the United States ivas fully, nlive to the/wisdom of re-esfablish-ingthe service:. The feeling in favour of it was now stroiigGi' 1 thaii i t'had keen for a long "while past.' "'.w'.". : V.