PARCELS POST

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3126, 3 July 1917, Page 6

PARCELS POST

BETWEEN WELLINGTON AND MAIN TRUNK TOWNS. , In answer to a request from the Tβ Kuiti Chamber of Commerce on the matter of the parcels post service, between Wellington and towns on ( the Main Triune line. Mr. H. D. Yiekery, secretary of the Wellington Chamber, reported to the cc/Uncil yesterday that he had been into the matter and presented tho following report:— '' "With reference to the communication received from the To Kuiti Chamber of Commerce regarding the carriage of pareele mails on the Main Trunk express, I have made inquiries i'rqm the Post Oliico authorities regarding the practice of tho Department in forwarding parcels siuco the restriction of the railway services. Some two years ago the matter cels post for Main Trunk towns was before the chamber. Tho position then was that this mail was sent by the mail trail) leaving Wellington at 1.10 p.m., and only when space was available (and not as a general practice) was parcels matter forwarded by tho second express- leav. ing at 9.10 p.m.; parcels on which an 'express , fee had been paid were, however, forwarded by the latter-train. Tho position now is that, owing to the restricted accommodation which can be given by the railways to the postal (authorities for the carriage of parcels matter on the Main Trunk trains, the bulk of the parcels mail is* forwarded by other trains; 'express , parcels, however, are sent by Main Trunk trains. Parcels for towns in the southern half of the island arc. sent by the New Plymouth and Napier mail trains, or by other trains, as far as Pnlmerstoii, and- taken' on to destination by first available train. Some of the Auckland parcels mail is sent by train to' New Plymouth and thence by steamer to Auckland. For towns north of Taumarunui (oxcept Auckland) the practice, of the Department is to endeavour to forward parcels mail by tho mid-day mail train."