MAILS FROM TARANAKI.

Hawera Star, Volume XLV, 22 January 1926, Page 4

MAILS FROM TARANAKI.

SUGGESTED MOTOR SERVICE. AUCKLAND NOT FAVORABLE. Taranaki people have welcomed the advent of the Daylight Limited express because, in their opinion, it has brought! New Plymouth in closer touch ■\vith°Auckland.' An overland car service has been inaugurated between Hamilton and New Plymouth, and passengers can leave Auckland by the express at 7.53 a.m., and be in the Taranaki town before 6 p.m. the same day. Whether this fact should be responsible for the Railway Department keeping the Daylight express running, all the year is another matter. It might be mentioned in passing, how.ever, that up to the present the Daylight from Auckland has not been well patronised, and the Hamilton-New Plymouth connection has not. come up -to expectations. Now the New Plymouth people are endeavouring to have tlie postal authorities establish a motor mail service between that place and Auckland. A letter received by the Auckland Chamber of Commerce has conveyed this information., It is proposed to make the connection at Te Kuiti (says the Auckland Star). Mail by this service, if such were established, would leave New Plymouth ■» by service car at 12.30 p.m. for Te.v Kuiti and arrive at Auckland) at 11.10 p.m. the same day. The Taranaki Chamber of Commerce maintains that correspondence fo r " warded by this mail from New Plymouth would reach business houses in Auckland first thing next morning, thus permitting a reply to be dispatched the same day. It was contended that a saving of 24 hours on mail from New Plymouth to Auckland would bo the result. The communication eoneluded by stating that the Taranaki Chamber of Commerce thought that a service such as the one suggested would be greatly appreciated by business people in Auckland. Judging by remarks passed at tho council meeting of the Auckland Chamber of Commerce the proposal does not meet with approval, and it was accorded no support. During discussion it was pointed: out) that there would be little or no saving in time,, and that the steamer service between Onehunga and New Plymouth was quite satisfactory as far as mails were concerned. . . , One member voiced the opinion tnat the Postal Department would not hear of such a proceeding. After further discussion the whole matter was referred to the executive committee, with power to act?.