SORTING THE MAILS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 11060, 11 May 1899, Page 5

SORTING THE MAILS.

THE OFFICIAL EXPLANATION.

FIFTEEN MINUTES TOO LATE. With reference to the delay in the sorting of the San Francisco mail, which arrived in Auckland on Tuesday evening, Mr. Biss, Chief Postmaster, stated-to a Herald reporter, who called at the post office yesterday, that the sorting was put off till m on account of the mail not reaching to post office until after midnight The lmmedint"!' to sort the mail m ned 1, f5 on arrival if it reach « the post i ♦ midnight. On Tuesday the post office staff had been working unusually Slid ?' - and When the ma ' lb ° at ™ tint Ilm n° ~ n !' 11 Was not anticipated £ B v ° uld reach the wharf in time to ad il a" 1 " , , ng in the office before matin fn A ,-' dln S 1 y arrangements were late arri T,'"?, early in the morning, the late arm si of the mail and the fact that f'oindn t t n l- Staff had " ot lon S been relieved in \ty " g c ? nsidered - As it happened ™ ! ffc unusually good time between Tin and the wharf, and in ordinary tKt t . he f mail should have been iii the " st office before midnight, and should once M t I , C " Stom ' llave be ™ sorted at send nf ti )ilss , ' fttes - however, that instead of the mail bags being stacked ready was thrown ashore whenever the steamer and bid t .' ,0 ? were surrou .V horses and had to be hoisted on to the wharf. ConrprM i ®.! 7 resulted ' and th» mail twelve the post office St a quarter past twelve, and sorting was deferred till five