SAN FRANCISCO MAIL.
Apropos of a report that the San Francisco line of steamers is to be discontinued, the secretary of the Postal Bureau points out (says the Melbourne representative of the Sydney Daily Telegraph) service carried last year between Sydney arid San Francisco 81,0001b of mail matter. The letters totalled B,ooolb, which would approximately represent 400,000 letters. ,:,.There were I,ooolb weight of parcels. The remaining articles weighed 72,0001b. The return postages might be taken to be about the same, probably rather more than less. Zealand, which used to rely on this service chiefly for its English mails to and fro, sent last year to the United Kingdom, via San Francisco, 1,811,000 letters and parcels, 261,702 books and 351,302 newspapers, and received 1,647,540 letters and parcels, 2-51,702 books, and 351,302 newspapers. A comparison with the mail despatches to England from Australia by the P. and O. and Orient lines shows that last year the P. and O. boats carried 48,4341b of .letters, 305,1931b of packets, and 39,1401b of parcels. The Orient Company during the same period carried 46,0791b of 1etter5,299,8541b of packets, and 33,1991b of parcels.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8389, 30 March 1907, Page 3
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186SAN FRANCISCO MAIL. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXIX, Issue 8389, 30 March 1907, Page 3
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