THE TWO WELLINGTONS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2871, 8 September 1916, Page 4

THE TWO WELLINGTONS

■ A COMPLAINT FROM AUSTRALIA'. The business people of Wellington. (New South Wales), according to a. cablegram from Sydney, are resentful over the fact that a letter addressed to their Chamber of Commerce was •6ent by the State Postal Department to Wellington (New Zealand), and did not reach its proper destination for a month. They regard tliis incident as a slight upon Jlieir town, and tliey mention,, in anticipation of a suggestion regarding a change of name, that their centro "was a Wellington before tho New Zealand Wellington was bom." 'This grievance is ,in old one, and a remedy is not easy to find. Wellington' (Now South Wales) is a trifle off the beaten tracks, hut it is reported to have some excellent limestone caves, and the list of its residents in the Post; Office Directory contains than 300 names. Naturally, the citizens are proud of tlieir town, and it vexes them that their letters should go astray. But the Federal PostmasterGeneral lias stated that there are practical difficulties in the way of sending their local post office all the letters found in Australian mail-boxes addressed to persons residing in "Wellington." There would be congestion in the office, and sometimes business people are in a hurry. His suggestion that the letters, N.S.W., might be used to prevent confusion was regarded a 6 an affront to the Australian Wellington- . The people of Wellington (A enSouth Wales) may be able to find some consolation in the reflection tliatotner towns have suffered through a similarity of names. The citizens of London (United States of America) are often annoyed by the miscarriage of their letters, and there was an angry complaint from a business man in a London newspaper some time ago™ effect that a letter addressed by him to his native town of Boston, had actually been forwarded by the British Post Office to "some place in Amcrica."