THE PACIFIC MAIL SERVICE.

Auckland Star, Volume VII, Issue 2029, 10 August 1876, Page 3

THE PACIFIC MAIL SERVICE.

The Auckland Chamber of Commerce some time back anpointed a committee to enquire into the difficulties connected with the Pacific Mail Service, and that committee has now prepared its report. We have not space for the document in full, but we may say that after setting forth the prominent defects of the present service including as it does tho forked route, and coastal appendage, the report recommends, what will meet with the approbation of every business man in Auckland, that the service be altered to the direct route to Sydney, via., Honolulu, and Auckland. It points out how that cable communication between Auckland and Sydney will enable Sydney merchants by this route to get two days earlier, and later communication with San Francisco ; It alludes to the draw backs connected with the K.ndavu transhipment, and calls attention to the fact that the contractors under the proposed service could do with one steamer less. The latter portion of the report deals with the unsuitabilifcy of the Bay of Islands as a port of call instead of Auckland. Want of accommodation, inability to supply fresh provisions, and engineering requirements, inconvenience from transhipment of passengers, and other disadvantages, are enumerated as being inseparable from the substitution. The report is well drawn up, and we trust steps will be taken to impress upon the Assembly the importance of its recommendations.