ENGLISH MAIL

New Zealand Times, Volume LI, Issue 11960, 15 October 1924, Page 6

ENGLISH MAIL

BUSINESS MEN’S GRIEVANCE HALF-HOUR BETWEEN ARRIVAL AND DEPARTURE! In the interests of the business earn* munity the Leader of the Opposition (Mr T. M. Wilford) called the attention of the -Postmaster-General as a matter of urgency, yesterday afternoon, to the fact that the Dominion mail notices had stated the day before that the English mail was due to arrive at the Wellington G.P.O. at 1.30 p.m., while the outdoing mail closed at 2 p.m.., leaving half an hour only for business men, including lawyers, who had to advise their agents at Home on various matters, to deal with their correspondence. A fortnight ago exactly the same thing happened. It was manifestly quite impossible for business men to deal with *their correspondence in that time, and he asked the Minister to see whether it was not possible to make some arrangement by which there might be at least a day between the arrival of 'the English mail and its departure. MINISTER ACREEB WILL TAKE UP MATTER WITH COMPANIES. The Hon. J. G. Coates replied that he had not had the piatter brought before his notice previously; but he knew there ought to be more than thirty minutes between the arrival and the departure of the mail, because the ship came in at 6 o’clock in - the morning and left at 3 p.m. He did not think half an hour anything like enough time for the business men to deal with their correspondence; and he would take up the matter with the companies and see if they could not allow more time.