THE POST-OFFICE.

Lyttelton Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 3567, 24 June 1872, Page 3

THE POST-OFFICE.

TO THE KDITOB OF TUB LYTTELTON TIMES. Sir, —A correspondent in the Times to-day professes to provide a remedy for existing postal irregularities which have recently formed the subject of comment in your Columns. But 1 confess that his suggestions do not appear to me very practical. No doubt the way in which Messrs Dalgety and Co. advertise the Melbourne steamers is

very misleading and unbusinesslike, occasioning any amount of disappointment, trouble, and annoyance, oftentimes expense to passengers —for instance advertising a boat to sail from Port, say to-day or to-morrow, when it is utterly impossible she can arrive by that time—whilst for a paltry shilling they can know pretty well to an hour when she will arrive—stifl that does not relieve the Postoffice officials from the duty of looking after their own business. It is not to be expected that business firms will send their clerks run.ping backward s and forwards to the post with intelligence that they , have no sort of interest in.

Your correspondent indeed says “ the telegraph is not to be depended on; so much the worse; what is to be depended on P ; ’Here again is an example of that miserable parsimony, and contemptible governmental littleness which forbids the provincial departments telegraphing to each other, for public information the arrivals and departures of intercolonial shipping ! And this is New Zealand statemansnip.! Your obedient servant, C.T.