MAIL NOTICES.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18591, 16 January 1926, Page 15

MAIL NOTICES.

TO THI XDITOJt Of "THE PSBSS." Sir,—lf the postal authorities, in. their reply to my letter published iu yoife columns yesterday, had expressed regret at their mistakes, nothing further need have been said on the subject, but their reply equivocates in a manner that requires that their errors shall be nailed to the counter. After admitting that two dlfferentlv worded notices were published referring to tlie Kaikoura and Kaikorai, whereas the latter vessel only should have been mentioned, they say that "the first paragraph was correct in every particular, and the second would also have been correct by the substitution of Kaikorai for Kaikoura." Now. the iirst notice said that tw:, bags of mail would reach i.ere on the i'lth, and 13 bags of news and 1" parcel receptacles on Saturday. The second notices said that vessel had 1" bags of mail and 17 par. el receptacles, '"'the mail' being due here on the 14th. I maintain that the second notice distinctly leads it to be supposed that the whole of the 17 bag? of mail would reach here on Thursday. With regard to the" statement in.it

"second-class English rmd Australian mail matter cannot lie carried bv express trains," it is high time that a change wa3 made. One can understand that the huge mails in the United might, fill express trains to the exclusion of passengers, and that therefore some discrimination and delav ni-iv there be necessary. .In New Zealand, however, it is different, and while it. may not be possible to carry a oig nriiJ by express trains, it should lie possible to carry newspapers. Genial postal officials may think that delav ro newspapers is of'trifling 'importa'sire, but to show the contrary I mav m?n

tion, as an example, that many Dominion commercial houses require information as to ships bringing merchandise to Australia for transhipment to New Zealand. This information is obtainable only from Australian papers, and the detention of these causes real inconvenience. I shall not attempt to occupy more of your space by my complaints. Mv main points is that the Post Office is too complacent. Rumour also has it (hat there is a feud between tho Railway and Postal Departments that does not help matters.—Yours, etc., R. ARHWORTH, Major. Christchureli, January 15th.