A SUGGESTION FROM FIJI.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 18, 16 October 1907, Page 9

A SUGGESTION FROM FIJI.

[jiY TEiiEanAPir.—press association,] , ..-•. Auckland, Octobor 15.i''iji files to'hand to-ilay contain the following item:— ; "For the past dozen years the transJ acihe line of steamers, known as tho Can-adian-Australian Royal Mail Lino, 'running between Vancouver and Sydnoy, via ports, has boon arriving and departing at Suva with wonderful regularity, as becomes tho subsidised, mail carriers on an all red routeroute.. : ■ ■ • . ■ iNotwithstanding: that such should havo been tl|o caso during this long term of years, the New Zealand portion of tho mail is variously, treated. Sometimes it is taken on, to Sydney in the .iteainer which brought it, and at other times it is landed at Suva and forwarded to Auckland first chance. Wo more particularly call attontion to this aimless fashion of dealing with tho King's mail on an established line of communication, inasmuch as the Premier of New Zealand was somewhat seriously regarded when ho, a httlo time ago, aimed at a twenty-ono days' mail service between London and' New Zealand: .Moanwhilo tho present is disregarded, and New Zealand mail niattor is floating about on tho deep regardless that time is Hying. It would almost seem that Auckland had boon so intoxicated with its foreign Han Francisco line of communication that it had no timo for the more substantial British lino which has for so long and so satisfactorily performed the mail scrvico between Australia, Canada, and London. Ono would havo tlimight that a country prepared to spend £100,000 a year for a moro expeditious mail service would at loast have taken care , to establish connection with Suva to meet tho incoming' mail steamer from Europe and expedited tho despatch of its mail matter to that extent."