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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 560, 12 January 1929, Page 2

Mail Services

SUNDAY, JANUARY 13, 1929. Wellington, Wanganui, New Plymouth, Palmerston North, Hastings and Napier I (letters only), 5.30 p.m. Southern Offices of New Zealand (also Gisborne and Tokomaru Bay), 5.30 p.m. MONDAY, JANUARY 14 ,1929 Wanganui, Palmerston North, Welling- i ton, etc., 4 a.m. Whangarei, Dargaville. etc., 6.30 a.m. and 3 p.m. C. Chamberlin P. 8., 4 a.m. Awaroa, Cowes, etc., 8 a.m. Kawau, Matakana Lower, Mullet Point, etc., 10.30 a.m. Opotiki, etc. (parcels only), 11 a.m. Kawhia (parcels only), 11 a.m. New Plymouth and Taranaki district, 12 noon. Parcels at 11 a.m. Colville (Port Charles) and Amodeo Bay, 1.30 p.m. Coromandel, Pakatoa, 1.30 p.m. Whitianga, Tairua and Huikai, also Whangamata, 2.30 p.m. Russell, Opua, Whangaroa and Mangonui, etc., 2.30 p.m. Beachlands and Maraetai, 3 p.m. McGill and Stanley P. 8., Vipond F. 8., Shakespear P. 8., O’Connor P.B , and Sheffield P. 8., 3.30 p.m. Wellington, New Plymouth. Wanganui, Palmerston North, Hastings and Napier (letters only), 5 p.m. Southern Offices of New Zealand (also Gisborne and Tokomaru Bay), 5.30 p.m. OUTGOING OVERSEAS MAILS Australian States, Straits Settlements, China, Japan and South Africa, also Norfolk Island, per Main Trunk Limited (Tahiti, from Wellington), Monday. January 14, at 5 p.m. Parcels at il a.m., Saturday, January 12. Great Britain, Ireland, Continent of Europe, Canada, United States of America, Mexico, West Indies (also Fiji, Apia and Pago Pago, Hawaiian Islands), per R.M.M.S. Aorangi, via Vancouver, Tuesday, January 15, at 2 p.m. Parcels, for Fiji and America, at 11 a.m. Due London, February 15. Great Britain, Ireland, and Continent of Europe, Central America, Cristobal (Panama Canal), also South America, per Tamaroa. Friday, January 18, at 7 p.m. Correspondence for Great Britain, Ireland and Continent of Europe must be specially addressed “per Tamaroa.’* Parcels at 3 p.m. Due London about February 23. INCOMING OVERSEAS MAILS January 13.—R.M.M.S. Aorangi, from Sydney (45 bags Australian mail). January 14.—S.S. Manuka. from Melbourne, via Wellington (401 bags English, Eastern and Australian mail). January 15.—S.S. Marama, from Sydney (Australian mail). January 15.—R.M.S. Tahiti, from San Francisco, via Wellington (258 bags English and American mail) WM. J. GOW. Chief Postmaster.

SPEED OF CARGO LINERS.—A new type of vessel, the cargo liner, with » speed on service of from 14 to 16 knots, is being increasingly employed oil th* long distance trade routes, such as that between this country and Australia, states the “Shipping W'orld.” There ha* thus arisen an interesting problem in that, the speed of the liners carrying mails not having increased to the same extent and the cargo liner having as a rule fewer ports of call, it may. and does, happen that the documents covering the lattei s cargo and sent by the mail boat do not arrive until after the cargo liner has herself arrived, thus causing delay ano inconvenience to the receivers. Efforts are now being made by a number o shippers and merchants engaged iJ Australian trade to bring about an nopro vement in the mail service. It has been suggested that the mail subsidies now paid are not high enough to tnab*e faster mail vessels to be employed, bu the point is overlooked that on Australian mail service, the cost of providing for a speed two ur three kn - more than that now called fpr be prohibitive, having regard to ’ conditions existing. Would it not th be possible to accelerate the * vice by utilising seaplanes as ies to the existing service. Air •«*.. ments have already been made for m \ from other Australian ports to oe . ried by air to and from austhe first and last port of call m Au tralia of the inward and outward nag steamers, and this saves tvs ° -? r <. ~-vice days. At this end. an air Tnaii s.n between this country and Por *Utt£inff both directions would 6u\e „- gv . like another four days. hi in » the necessary speeding up of lU ' eX . could be effected at very much pense than by increasing p faster mail subsidies s» as tc. provide j mail vessels, which could not. as !Bl ™ l are, be economic propositions.