MAIL SERVICES

Hokitika Guardian, 18 October 1928, Page 3

MAIL SERVICES

DISABILITIES OF SOUTH ISLAND. AUCKLAND, Oct. 17. “It fell to my lot to attack the subsidy Paid to the San Francisco service from Auckland forty-one year* ago and afterwards to renew it upon a much lower subsidy. It has run with great, success ever since, and will, in my opinion, always be maintained. I also arranged for the subsidy for the first mail and passenge* - service from Wellington to England via San Francisco. This, in my opinion, will also he maintained.” said Sir Joseph Ward, 'speaking lns + night.

“The South Inland, fiftv years ago, had a weekly steam and. passenger service, the point of arrival end departure of which was the Bk’ff. Sirme the war that has cp«s°d one that U irregular and less frequent has been substituted, and many other we!' qualified people recognise that wlint one might almost call a ‘withering’ has followed in the wake of the oresent steam service. It is unsatisfactory. not only on account of its irregularity, but its bad efiect is felt generally. In my opinion no part o r this country can (he hurt or kept. V >r ''* without injuiry to all parts, and T strongly urge that tenders should bo called for a suitable weekly mail and passenger service from the southern port of the South Island to Australia, via Melbourne, similar ,to what it had fifty years ago.”