CARGO BOATS AS MAIL-CARRIERS

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 564, 20 July 1909, Page 5

CARGO BOATS AS MAIL-CARRIERS

THE CASE OF THE WAITEMATA.

(By Teleßraph.-Presa Association.) m ' ' Auckland, July 19. ' The mercantile community in Auckland has been put to much inconvenience by the action of the Sydney postal authorities in forwarding tie late English mail via Newcastle by the cargo stoarner Waitemata to Wellington. The president of the Chamber of Commerce (Mr. Bart Kent) states that, for the future, it would certainly be in the diiectioiH>f assisting tie commercial community if from Australia to New Zealand were forwarded 'to Auckland, and not via anywhere else. The inconvenience to Auckland merchants and business people arising out of the present contretemps was dwelt upon!by Mr. Kent, who characterised it as quite sonous. Other commercial men interviewed agreed that the intention of the Post Office authorities on this occasion may have been all right, but there was a general concensus of opinion nevertheless that, in future, mails should come by th& direct Sydney-Auckland boat'in all cases where the alternative mjght happen to be a cargo steamer, as to the arrival of which in Wellington by a'given date there could be no definite reliance.