SPEED OF OCEAN MAILS.
NO' ADVANCE! SINCE 1900. Confirmation of the criticism that no improvement in the .speed of ocean mail steamers, has been made during the (last quarter of a century is 'afforded bv a statement by the PostmasterGeneral in the House of Commons re cently. Sir J. Pennefather asked the Post-master-General the average time taken for the conveyance of mails by -sea from the United Kingdom to Australia, New Zealand, India, and Ceylon, respectively. in the years 1900, 1910, and 1920. Sir W. Mi t che 11 -Thoms o n replied that, except during the war and the early postwar period, the average times taken ,in the conveyance of mails to the destinations named (have not varied much. The mails for Australia now take 29 days to Adelaide, ns against 31 in 1900, and to Auckland, via North America-. 31-34 days, against 35 in 1900. To Bombay and Colombo, the times. (14$ day® (and 10 days -respectively) are practically the same now as in 1900.
Sir F. Hall asked whether it was not time that the Post Office, got into communication frith some of the shipping companies to see whether they would nut on quicker steamers. Sir W. Mitcheill-Thom-nson : T sffggest that, mv hon. friend should read the •eport of the sliipiring companies, where the matter is fully discussed.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 29 December 1926, Page 5
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