AN EXPENSIVE MAIL

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 3 January 1931, Page 3

AN EXPENSIVE MAIL

ONE BAG COSTS £2866 SUBSIDY PAID FOR CARRIAGE AMERICAN CARGO VESSEL ( The most expensive mail that lias ever reached New Zealand arrived at Auckland from Los Angeles last week by the Oceanic and Oriental Navigation Company’s steamer Golden Cross (reports the “Herald”). Tlie»vessel brought only one bag of ordinary mail and for the carriage of it. to New Zealand the vessel’s owners will receive £2b66. The freight charges on the bag of mail are exceptionally high because the Oceanic and Oriental Navigation Company is paid a subsidy by the United States Government for bringing mail to New Zealand. The subsidy is at the rate of about 10s 6d a nautical mile, or about £2BOO a voyage. The company runs a monthly service to New Zealand, the vessels bringing lumber, ease, oil and general cargo from Pacific Coast ports, discharging at Auckland, Wellington, Lyttcltpn, Dunedin and Gisborne. The steamers are'scheduled to leave Los Angeles on the first of each month and to reach Auckland 27 days later. The yearly subsidy paid by the United States Government for the service is about £34,392, which is only £II,OOO less tl>an the Union Company receives from the New Zealand Government for running the San Francisco and Vancouver mail services to New Zealand. The Union Company’s subsidy for the San Francisco service is £25,000, and for the Vancourver service, £20,000. For the combined services the fast liners Aorangi, Niagara,. Makura and Monowai arc utilised and one of the four vessels reaches New Zealand every two weeks. They cover the distance between Vancouver and Auckland, or between San Francisco and Wellington,’ in 18 days and the mail brought by each vessel to New Zealand generally totals about 2000 bags. The mail brought by the Golden Cross yesterday is the smallest amount brought by any of the Golden steamers since the Oceanic and Oriental Company obtained the mail contract in 1928. In November of the same year the Golden Cloud arrived at Auckland with only two bags of mail. Generally those vessels bring about 30 or 40 bags.

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