MAIL DELAYS.
TO the editor. Sir,-—The action of the Postal Department in the matter of the detention of Australian mails' at Wellington and Dunedin for the purpose of fumigation demands some protest being made by the mercantile public to the Postmaster-General. The mails from Alelbourne (including an English portion) arrived at Port Chalmers at eight o’clock yesterday morning. The English portion came on by express, and was delivered here’last evening. ’ But the Australian portion is detained in the southern city till this forenoon’s express. Surely a few bags of letters (if- not the papers) could have been fumigated in seven hours and sent on by the s.s. Westralia-, which left Port Chalmers at four o’clock p.m. yesterday, and been delivered here tills morning.—I am, etc., SUBSCRIBER. Christchurch. August 26.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume CX, Issue 13216, 27 August 1903, Page 6
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