PRESIDENT DELAYS

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20862, 14 August 1942, Page 2

PRESIDENT DELAYS

MAIL FROM THE-NORTH , E hPT?TH£R PAY SERVICE CARS TO TIME

The consistency-with which mails from the north ■ have be.en. arriving in the past few-weeks *?. a s ,to CDnsidecable criticism among the public and particularly by .the,.business,community’,ito whom a ddm df inconvenience is sometimes qaused. .Jt .is; pointed out that althbugh' the maiL truck”may be only 'two dr three'-hours’Tate this is sufficient tef bETnail by 24 hours.

The northern truck is due at Gisborne at 5.30, a.m., at which fwe the posTnl -staff it for town delivery -and .despatch, to the Ea‘.it " Godst ‘dnd'*bfher country areas. Sincei-'ffuly 7, however, been an hour late on no fewer than 15... occasions, or, - on— an—-average, nearly every other day. On nearly all these occasibftS, .Itf has been sufficiently late, to prevent connection jyijth the* East Coast service and hyp timps so. late' ; that' nqnes of 'lts < mail :PQuld ".pe delivered "ihr.'Gisbprne [UpM fitnerfollmyihg day! ■On ?pther< days -it has Jieep'fpogsible to maker thei town delivery of first-class linail matter ohly.

In the best "of circumstances, Gisborne, is handicapped ,in. its mad ser,'Vicps; "fhail,drolJi';iAucklahd;T‘ i fdr -'instance,‘’not ‘ being' dtliWf’dd'* Until two days after it is .posted. If the truck is a few hours late in reaching Gisborne mail is notd.eliverpd until three days’ after posting and if the delay occurs* on a Saturday, as ‘has happened, ike_xeault.Js..that, mail posted in Auckland on Thursday does" not reach the-addtessee. UntiV-dVlonday.

■ Oh each of the past’three days, the mails have been so late-in ireachihg Gisbbrkedthaiiihey haTe, the town 'delivery -fn- additloh.-to the-coun-tty connections: k-Titese ; due to slips in the Waiuekar but* a varietycauses., 1 haS: jCoDtributed to -the-many other delays-ip the--past month>i Generally speaking, the north ■rdad >j has' 'been- ’maintained -in’ good condition throughout the winter;- 1 a fact -.that is .supported /by. .the .regularity.--, with .whidx .the .passenger [Service has run to schedule, a delay ..of one being- an--excap-tion to thm rule. ’ s I T-1.1 r t J ..._