Mail Service With Europe.

Gisborne Times, Volume VI, Issue 228, 4 October 1901, Page 3

Mail Service With Europe.

SOME NECESSARY IMPROVEMENTS. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) Wellington, last night. The Chamber of Commerce, with a view to bringing about a more satisfactory | mail service with England and Europe, I has communicated its resolution regarding connection with the Federal mail services , j via the Blutf to the Postmaster-General. , The Chamber points out that such por- ; i tions of the New Zealand mails for the | United Kingdom as are sent by way of j Sydney are unduly delayed by the fact ! that the steamers carrying such mails | leave here on Saturdays and reach Svdney on 'Wednesdays, thus missing the outward mail despatched thence on each Tuesdav, and involving the detention of six days for the following mails. Attention is also called to the fact that the Federal mail, which is due in Melbourne on Tuesday, and frequently arrives on Mondays. is detained in Melbourne for the 1 Union steamer leaving on Wednesday, and so reaches the Blutf on the following Tuesday. The Chamber contends that these detentions could be largely avoided, and a great improvement effected in the mail system if the intercolonial steamboat service were in each case advanced by a | dav. The inward mail would then reach I the Bluff on Mondays, and the outward i mail could be despatched from Wellington on Fridays, thus catching the Federal mail leaving Sydney on Tuesdays. Under this system, the towns in the South | Island" and Wellington would possess a regular weekly service with three davs for reply to correspondence. The Council says that a _ further improvement might be effected if the express train from Dunedin, which now leaves at 11, were despatched at eight o'clock. This would enable the steamer to leave Lvttelton at six o'clock with the English and Colonial mails, which would catch the trains leaving Wellington, and so enable business people in the important towns of Napier, Wanganui and New Plymouth to reply on Friday to their English correspondence.