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EXPLANATION BY POST OFFICE. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Wellington, May 29. In reply to criticisms the Postal Department explains that the mail contract betw’een New Zealand and the Pacific Coast provides for 24 dispatches either way, but New Zealand forwards letter mails by every fast direct steamer due to arrive in London before the service via San Francisco or Vancouver. The dispatch of these mails is announced to the public as soon as tlin final time of departure of the direct steamer is known, but the public must realise that the dispatch of steamers is dependent on the completion of their loading and very often it is not possible to give more than two days’ notice of the dispatch of mails which will arrive in London before the dispatch via San Francisco or "V ancouver.
There is a special provision for dispatching invoices by the boats carrying goods. This has been represented by the post office to those concerned time and again. Fast mail-carrying steamers are rareiy fully loaded at the present time. It is therefore hardly reasonable to suggest that more ships should be dispatched when there is not enough work for the ships now running.
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Taranaki Daily News, 30 May 1922, Page 5
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198HOME MAILS. Taranaki Daily News, 30 May 1922, Page 5
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