SUEZ MAIL DELAYS.
AN' OFFICIAL EXPLANATION. fPnoit Otra Own Correspondent.) AUCKLAND, January 30/ With reference to the Suez mail que»» tion, the Clfief Postmaster at Auckland (Mr Boldswort*), who was seen by a Herald representative, stated that the mail was due to arrive at Sydney on Tuesdays and Thursdays in alternate weeks. The mails due on Tuesdays, he said, always caught the Auckland boat on Wednesday, and those due on Thursday, had almost invariably, by arriving a day before the schedule time, also caught the Wednesday's boat for Aueklandy -and had thus arrived 1 here on Sunday, whereas, according to the time-table,- the mail was not actually due at Wellington till the following Wednesday. It was therefore not due at Auckand till Friday. The public had thus been receiving its mails on alternate weeks ahead of the due date, with the exception of the present week and one or two other occasions when the mail due at Sydney on Thursday had not arrived in time to catch the boat leaving on the i previous day. . (
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Otago Witness, Issue 2812, 5 February 1908, Page 52
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175SUEZ MAIL DELAYS. Otago Witness, Issue 2812, 5 February 1908, Page 52
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