Wlmt must be the most, expensive mail matter ever brought to New Zealand was delivered to the postal authorities at Auckland on Wednesday, when the Golden Cloud arrived from 1 ,os Angeles. The vessel brought two hags of letters, and for their carriage across the Pacific the owners of the Oceanic and Oriental Navigation Company receive £2866 from the American Government, or £l-133 a bag. ihe Golden Cloud is the second of the company’s steamers to deliver mail from Los Angeles at Auckland under a new contract entered into with the American Government last September. The subsidy is at the rate of 10s a nautical mile, and the contract seems to be proving very expensive, for towards the end of last month the Golden Bear brought only sixty-seven bags of mail to Auckland from Los Angeles. These were delivered at a cost of £43 a bag.
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Hokitika Guardian, 1 December 1928, Page 6
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