MAIL DELAYS
SOME OF THE CAUSES. The vexatious delays in the receipt of bills of lading and such document? were referred to by Mr. Wilkinson in the House of Representatives on Saturday evening, and ho asked the PoitmasterGeiicral to make arrangements to have documents sent out. by the same steamers bringing the goods, or whether he would take other stops to obviate the difficulty. Mr. Coates said that mails for New Zealand were dispatched from the United Kingdom to New Zealand via Panama, via the Cape of Good Hope, via San Francisco, and via Vancouver. Mails were, coming to hand out of order, and tlii> attention of the British Post Office had been called to this, with a request that the authorities there make a better selection of steamers for mails for NewZealand. The British Post Oik* made no provision for the posting of mails on board ship. This might bo arranged by directing the correspondence specially to tlio ship bringing out tho raods. Or the shipping documents might be entrusted to the, master of the ship bringing tho goods. He had directed that Rpecific recommendations be sent to tho British postal authorities for better arrangements.
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 33, 3 November 1919, Page 4
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196MAIL DELAYS Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 33, 3 November 1919, Page 4
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