DELAY IN REPLY TO LETTERS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1589, 5 November 1912, Page 6

DELAY IN REPLY TO LETTERS.

RAILWAY CORRESPONDENCE] - BRANCH CRITICISED.: The Railway Department was over the cools by Mr. A.-E.: Mabin at) yesterdoy's meeting of tho council of thn Chamber' of Coinmercc for tho alleged, laxity that characterises its. duty conqern- ■ lug correspondence. He stated that one '■ letter forwarded/, to : the ■ Department,- on August 6 bad .not yet besn replied to, and. others ■•posted-- in-.'August; ;had only been replied-, to . i:econtly, ; >::The 'one,"' for ' instance, read' that day ,on ,'ths subject ."■.'. of the lighting of railway carriages on suburban lines was in reply to-. a letter -■ forwarded to the Department on August. 1 4. Ho' thought . that. it : \ras time : that thoy should protest at the way in which the Chamber was being treated. If ono were to judge tho railway servic® oa the ■ standard of its correspondence brdnch, it would be placed on a very. low. plane. . indeed. Ho thought that the Department was very lis in the matter. In fact, all. the Government Departments wero lax ex- < c«pt the Post Office, which was exoep- . tionally pood. The business man ;po did not give an answer to a letter within, a day or two was thought nothing 0r,., but it was- the customary thing witn-tho ■Railway Department, ' not only'■■.as., far.. as ,: tho Cliamber of Commoica was oonoeriK ed. Generally the system of replying to letters was lax.. ■■ , 'i* v-'' . Mi-. Leifih Hunt; "If taat hadn't been the state, of affairs, tho Government) . wo.uld. not be looking! for a. gcnei™ nwn-i ager outside - New ■..Zealand... ■. J 'It was pn'4he; Guggestion ofl the chairman (Mr. Mabin), to write tq tho Department requesting a reply to « letter forwarded on August 6 last.