ARRIVAL OF MAILS.

Press, Volume LI, Issue 15453, 4 December 1915, Page 7

ARRIVAL OF MAILS.

TO THE KDITOII OF "THE T'RESS." Sir,—lf tho Post Office cannot give accurate information of incoming mails, will the Postmaster at leafit refrain from giving inaccurate Ho has notified us up to yesterday that there is. an Knglish mail due in Christchureh to-day; now to-dav, wlicn I look for my- letters. I see a notice that this mail is not due till to-morrow, and very likely to-morrow will see another notice that 5t is not due till Monday. (I am not joking, this has happened two or three times already this year.) Tho Post Office must have known on Wednesday that the steamer was late in reaching Auckland, had they chosen to know, and that therefore tho mail could not arrive at the time promised, and vet they coolly issue the identical notice regardless of its inaccuracy. Several times previously T have thought of writing to you on the subject, for when one is eagerly counting the hours for a mail which, I hope, will bring me the first news for more than three months from my son. who has been sent Home wounded from Gallipoli, it is a considerable disappointment to find that' the official notice, tho only thing one has to go by, is wholly uureliable. I hono that in future, if the Postmaster cannot issuo accurate forecasts, ho will issue none.—Yours, o.tc., DTSAPPOIXTED. 3>eccmber 3rd, 1915.