THE SUEZ MAILS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1415, 16 April 1912, Page 6

THE SUEZ MAILS.

ALTERATION OF DATES INEXPEDIENT. Some time last year the Wellington Chamber of Commerce wrote to the secretary of the Post and Telegraph Department suggesting that, as the New Zealand portions of the inward English mail (via Suez) Ho in Sydney from Monday to Wednesday each week, that arrangements might be made to dispatch the steamer from Sydney to Auckland, on the Monday. T<) this, the Secretary of the Postal Department has replied as follows;— "In reference to your letter of November 10 last asking that the day of departure from Sydney of tho steamer carrying the inward Suez mail be altered from Saturday to Monday, I have tho honour to inform you that the Union S.S. Company slates that the proposal to niter the Svdney sailing day from Saturday to Monday would interfere with the csistyng.-l arrangement 'under which a connection is now being made with tho outward huez mail in Sydney. To run such a service would mean that the steamer would only have a portion of a day in Wellington in which to discharge tho cargo from Sydnev and load tho outward cargo-alto-eeflicr too narrow a margin to work upon In' the event of bad weather interfering with tho vessel making an early arrival at Wellington on Inday, the whole time-table would be dislocated without an opportunity of picking up the timo on tho round trip and making it impossible to connect with the express leaving Sydney with tho outward Suez mails on the Tuesday evening for Melbourne. In the circumstances, it is regretted the proposed alteration is not practicable."