Some one to blame.
Accidents will occur and are bound to be overlooked, but the most indulgent are apt to get vexed when carelessness Ist shown ■ after an accident. The frightful weather last Friday night caused slips on the Manawatu Bail way line which delayed the up -train on Saturday morning, which regularly carries a mail for Foxton. When the train did arrive at Kereru, about three o'clock in the afternoon, no mail bags were handed to the coachdriver who had patiently waited there for them from ten o'clock in the morning. The train went on to Palmerston and must have delivered the mails at the Post-office. A train leaves Palmerston for Foxfcon at seven o'clock in the evening but no Wellington mails came by her. The Company on Sunday ran a special train with mails and had the Foxton bags been left behind on Saturday morning at Wellington they could have been sent to Palmerston by the special and from there forwarded by the train on Monday leaving Longburn at seven in the morning and arriving at Kereru a little after eight o'clock. This was neglected, nor did the train from Wellington on Monday morning, bring the missing mail bags forwarded by the Post office for transmission to Foxton on Saturday morning. There has been gross carelessness shown by the Manawatu Railway Company or by the Palmerston Post-office, by which, we do not know, but which should certainly be found out. If the Company took the mail for Foxton on Saturday morning by mistake through to Palmerston,, the Palmerston Post-office should have sent
it on to Foxton on Saturday night, failing which, on Monday morning. This they have not done. If the Company's officials loft the mail behind thorn on Saturday morning it should have boon sent up on Saturday evening or by the special on Sunday, and the Palmerston Postofiice could have; let us have the mail, by train and coach, in the town by noon of Monday. The bungle has been very annoying to our business men and soys little for the sense of those who have caused this delay.
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Manawatu Herald, 14 March 1893, Page 2
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353Some one to blame. Manawatu Herald, 14 March 1893, Page 2
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