DESPATCH OF AIR MAILS

Evening Star, Issue 22451, 23 September 1936, Page 12

DESPATCH OF AIR MAILS

UNDUE DELAYS AT SYDNEY BUSINESS FIRMS COMPLAIN [Per United Press Association.] WELLINGTON, September 23. Complaints from business firms that the United Kingdom air mails are not being despatched as early as possible from Sydney, and a request that the Chamber should investigate the question ot the delay there, were made by two member firms of the Council of the Wellington Chamber of Commerce. One firm wrote that it had received by the Monterey, which arrived at Auckland on Sunday, five air mail letters despatched from London on( August 20, Ipswich on August 21, Tunbridge Wells on August 27, Ipswich on August 28, and from London on August 29. This was evidence of the unsatisfactory way the air mail was being handled in Sydney. The firm also drew attention to the unreliable news appearing in the Press, presumably supplied by the Rost and Telegraph Department in regard to the date on which the mails were expected to arrive. Mr M. G. C. M'Caul advocated using the American service to speed up the delivery. Mr J. Madden (Chief Postmaster) explained the delay in the case men-, tioned, saying that it had been caused by an accident to the airliner Horsa. He was confident that the quickest possible channels were used to deliver the mails.