WAIMANA'S MAILS.

Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 162, 10 July 1924, Page 4

WAIMANA'S MAILS.

EXPLANATION BY CAPTAIK. > \ ; ~ RUSHED ABOARD AT LAST MINUT& |i Captain C. M. Andrews, master of | the steamer Waimana, whose m al ' s • I were found to be pilfered when she t. berthed at Auckland on Saturday last. | to-day made the following statement |i t\ to the "Star: — t . : "With reference to the article in your | j issue of Bth inst. re method of carrying 5 mails: As far as the same relates to , t the s.s. Waimana I wish to point out the following facts:— j' "The notification of the mails to be . received at Liverpool was for 6S bap c parcel mail, and it is the custom for 1 this class of cargo (for such it reaiiy , is) to be carried in such a position « c to be available for discharge immediateiv l after arrival at destination. At »• c a.m. on 24th May these_ 68 bags.were received and placed in No. 2 hold, tn _ general cargo there 'laving been finiswo previously. At 11.45 a.m., just on W point of "sailing, when all cargo spac" except No. 2 were filled, 317 bags of letter mail were brought down, m as the steamer was then ''singling up there was no other place available «• mail, as no notification had bee received previously so that space couw have been reserved. . ~ "According to the waybills, whicH '- the only description the ship's omc»»" n get of the class of mails received, tne :- was no mention of registered mail, an r it was only on the examination at AU land that 'we became aware of regi swr d mail being there. Hnd.it been know i- that bags of registered mail werei i- eluded in the letter mail the?e wo :- certainly have been separated a j placed in the strong room, a small sp L :- on board cargo ships not large enoug s I for a big mail." : ]