THOSE BELATED MAILS!
CARELESSNESS OFI AUSTRALIAN RAILWAY AUTHORITIES TWO DAYS' DELAY IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA. .Reference to the delay in the trans": of the. Christmas mail? from ilie United. Kingdom to Naw Zealand was made to a Dominion reporter yesterday by Mr. Tliil Myers, who has' recently returned to New 7,ealnnd from the 014 Country, via Australia. "I noticed that people here have been complaining that the big Christinas mails were transferred to the Port Nicholson, with the result tlsat they arrived in thn Dominion much belated," he said. "And I think I can throw a new light on tho matter. The mail? left England by tho Orient liner Onieto, and the mail?, on the instruction of tho Federal Government. were put off the steamer at Fremantle. It appears Hint the chief delay occurred in that port. Tho railway authorities—for the mails had to be taken to Adelaide by rail—wtre not sufficiently careful, ivitli the result that the mails were overlooked by those In charge, and did not reach Adelaide until t\vo days after the arrival of the earner. But that was not all. The Postal autorifle? took a long dhance when .tlie mails Rot to New South Wales, and placed them on the Port Nicholson, which iiadcoine down from Port Kemlila, Ifefore the departure of the Mumika, thinking that tho former steamer would Ret away first, ,ib flic Manuka was likely to be affected by the shipping troublo. Hence all the delay occurred, and those snxlously awaiting Home mails learnt of thi> Manuka's arrival with merely .intercolonial mail matter. 1 didn't know whether the Federal railway authorities often forget to put in nil on trains'"
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 82, 31 December 1920, Page 4
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275THOSE BELATED MAILS! Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 82, 31 December 1920, Page 4
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