ENGLISH MAILS.

Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17295, 5 November 1921, Page 9

ENGLISH MAILS.

ACCEUBEATINGr DELIVERY IN AUSTRALIA. (By Cable—Press association— Copyright.) (Australian and N.Z. Cahla Association.) SYDNEY, November 4. It is definitely stated that when the English mail arrives at Fremantle the transcontinental train for the Eastern States will be despatched the same day, eliminating the present delays, sometimes of several days. [Commenting on this subject recently, the Melbourne "Age" said there is reason to hope that a plan will be agreed upon which will provide at prompt train service from Western Australia, enabling tihe early delivery of English mails, and offering tourists an opportunity of seeing Australia by crossing it rather than going around it. In. the public interest, it is imperative that the mail service should be improved, and that the people who are_ contributing to a heavy subsidy paid to the; mail steamers, and wlho sunport by their taxes the expensive overland line, should be rewarded by some compensating service. It has already been indicated that the chief obstacle in the way of a satisfactory service is the objection entered by South Australia to running a train on the State system on Sundays, in order to carry mails and passengers on froin Port Augusta. If ai set of State officials are, by placing their own convenience, before the interests of tihe general public, enabled to hold up the entire trans-Australian railway service, the futility of the transcontinental line, which has cost millions to construct and is costing thousands to maintain, becomes painfully apparent.]