HOME MAIL ARRANGEMENTS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 224, 4 October 1901, Page 3

HOME MAIL ARRANGEMENTS.

[MB noes ASSOCIATION.] WiLLntaTON, October 3,

The Chamber of Commerce, with a view to bringing about a more satisfactory mail service with England and Europe, has communicated its resolu tion regarding connection with the Federal mail services via the Bluff to the Postmaster-General. The Chamber points out that such portions of the New Zealand mails for tbe United Kingdom as are sent by way of Sydney are unduly delayed by tbe £»ct that steamers carrying such mails leave here on Saturdays and reach Sydney on Wednesdays, thus missing the outward mail despatched thenc* each Tuesday, and involving a detect-on of six days for the following mails. Attention is also called to the fact that the Federal mail which is due in Melbourne on Tuesdays and frequently arrives on Mondays is detained in Melbourne for the Union Company's steamer leaving on Wednesdays, and bo reaches the Bluff on the following Tuesdays. The Chamber contends chat these, detentions could be largely avoided and a great improvement effected in the mail system if the intercolonial eteimT service were in each case advanced by a day. Tbe inward mail would then reach the B'uff on Mondays and the outward nuil ould bi despatched from Wellington on Fridays, thus ca'ching the Federal mail leaving Sydney 01 Tuesdays. Under this system towns in the South Island, and Wellington, would posses* a regular weekly service, with three days for reply to correspondence. Tbe Chamber 'ays a further I improvement might be effected if tbe express train from Ounedin, which now leaves at 11 o'clock, were despatch d «t eight o'clock. This would enable the steamer to leive Lytteltoa at six o'clock with English and Colonial nails, which wou'd catch trains leaving Wellington and so enable business people in the important towns of Napier, Warg*nui and New Plyncoutb to reply on Friday to English correspondence.