THE VANCOUVER MAIL SERVICE.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 12936, 16 October 1907, Page 8

THE VANCOUVER MAIL SERVICE.

TRANSHIPMENT OF NEW ZEA-

LAND PORTION

ADVERSE COMMENT.

(PUSBB ABBOCIATION TELEGRAM.)

AUCKLAND, October 15,

Fiji files to hand to-day contain the following:— "tor the past dozen years the trans-Pacific line of steamers known as the Canadian-Australian iioyal Mail Line, running between Vancouver and Sydney via porta, has been arriving and departing at Suva with wonderiul regularity, as becomes tho subdiukied mail carriers on an "All lied" route. Notwithstanding that such should have been the case during this long torm of years, the JNew Zealuud portion of the mail is variously treated, bomotinice it is taken on to o>dney in the steamer which brought it, aud at oilier times it is landed at Suva and forwarded to Auckland on tho nrst chance. Wo more particularly call attention to this aimless fashion or dealing with the lung's mail on en established line of < tornmunicatiou, inasmuch as the Premier of .New Zealand was koniewhat seriously regarded wheu he, a littlo time ago, aimed at a *21-doy»" mail service between London and New Zealand. Meanwhile the present is disregarded, and New Zealand mail matter is floating about oji rbe deep, regardless that time is flying. It would almost seem that Auckland had been so intoxicated with its foreign San Francisco line of communication that it had no time for tho more substantia! British line, which has for so long, end so satisfactorily, performed the mail service between Ajustralia, Canada, and London. One would have thought that a country prepared to spend £100.000 a year for a more expeditious mail service would at least have taken care to establish connection with Suva to meet the incoming mail steamer from Europe, and expedited the despatch of its mail matter to that extent."