AMERICAN MAILS

Hokitika Guardian, 5 January 1929, Page 5

AMERICAN MAILS

A NEW DEPARTURE. r United Press Association— By Electric Telegraph— Copyright). (Received this dav at, 8.90. a.m.) NEW YORK, Jan. 4. The Post Office Department has issued an order withdrawing Imm I lire Canard ships all mail except thal specifically addressed to such shins fo delivery in Europe, Africa and Ales: Asia. As n result, a great volume o" the mail usually transported by tin Berengaria, Ausonia, and Audania against which a -ruling was made wiL bo lost to the Cunard line, because few persons customarily specify the ship? on- which mail is to be carried. Moreover from three to six days will b added to the Lime of delivery of the mail, which would have been carried by the Berengaria when she sails a I midnight- fo-night, because the order transferred the mail to the White Star liner Baltic, a slower vessel sailing tomorrow morning. The Post Office Re pnrtinent announced it might re-rout-all European mail to favour American ships, but denied that the con trovers'wiLh the Cunard line, cabled on 28th December, caused tliis action.