AIR MAIL SERVICE.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 226, 23 September 1936, Page 8

AIR MAIL SERVICE.

COMPLAINTS OF DELAYS, j : •') LETTERS FROM LONDON. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. Complaints from business firms that United Kingdom air mails are not being dispatched as early as possible from Sydney, and a request that the chamber should investigate the question of delay there, were made by two members of firms at a meeting of the council of the Wellington Chamber of Commerce. One firm wrote stating that it received by the Monterey, which arrived at Auckland on Sunday, five air mail letters, which were dispatched from London on August 20, Ipswich on August 21, Tunbridge Wells on August 27, Ipswich on August 28, and from Sydney on August 29. This was evidence of the unsatisfactory way the air mail was being handled in Sydney. The firm also drew attention to the unreliable news appearing in the newspapers, presumably supplied by the Post and Telegraph Department, in regard to the date on which mails were expected to arrive. Mr. M. G. C. McCaul advocated the using of the American service to speed up delivery. Mr. J. Madden, Chief Postmaster, explained the delay in the case mentioned, saying that it had been caused by an accident to the air Horsa. He was confident that the quickest possible channels were used to deliver mails.