Wellington Handles a Record Mail

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 232, 20 December 1927, Page 11

Wellington Handles a Record Mail

EXTRA ACCOMMODATIOI WORK AT HIGH PRESSURE (From Our Resident Reporter.) WELLINGTON, To-day. A record for two days was established in the inward and outward mail handled at Wellington Post Office yesterday and to-day. The grand total was 5,683 bags of parcels and letters received or sent overseas.

The Tahiti brought 3,500 bags and the Tamaroa 1,500 yesterday, and 395 bags were dispatched north for Vancouver, while 329 were dispatched by the Turakina which sailed to-day. The sorting of yesterday’s inward mail was uncompleted to-day at 10 o clock when the Marama arrived with 1,614 bags of Australian and United Kingdom mail, half of which was for Wellington and the remainder for elsewhere. It is anticipated the whole of the letters will be sorted to-night. So great was the pressure that the use of a large Harbour Board shed was obtained for sorting second-class matter and nearly 750 bags were dealt with there in 12 hours. The whole overseas mail for the South Island was dispatched by the ferry last night and the letter portion of the Auckland mail left by the afternoon express. This was possible because all the Tahiti’s mail was sorted aboard. “There will be no shortbread or oatmeal cakes in Scotland,” said an official, indicating the huge pile of parcel mails from Edinburgh. Evidently the Scots don’t forget their brethren overseas at Christmastide. -

Apart from the Christmas mail there are a great many odd parcels and also a large quantity of seeds and bulbs. The latter were all examined by the Agricultural Department officer and all parcels subject to the scrutiny of the Customs officers before release.