MAIL SERVICE CHANGES

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 18692, 24 April 1924, Page 8

MAIL SERVICE CHANGES

THE TAHITI'S DEPARTURE. .FEWER PARCELS POSTED. The absence of railway transit has. made. a difference in the closing times of some overseas mails. The Tahiti ia to leave Wellington on Tuesday for San Francisco. Under ordinary conditions mails ' for America and Europe to go by the vessel would close at Auckland on Monday evening. • The mails will now have to be forwarded to Wellington via the West Coast ' a nd in consequence they . are . being closed this morning. In order to help matters as much .as possible, the department has arranged for a late mail of letters only to be despatched by the Tahiti to close at Auckland next Monday morning. These will be forwarded by the Rarawa to New Plymouth and thence by motor to Wellington. \ . One cI the many results of the strike is that fewer parcels have been posted in Auckland. Postal authorities are making every sffort to despatch ail express transit parcels, but ordinary packages . have to wait their opportunity for despatch. Locally there has been a' great decrease in the number of parcels received, from. which it may be gathered that the strike has resulted in a substantial loss of trade to Auckland firms which operate on a large scale through the parcel post system.