DELAYED TELEGRAMS.

NZ Truth, Issue 94, 6 April 1907, Page 4

DELAYED TELEGRAMS.

The Telegraph Department of Wellington seems intent on earning for itself the hearty curses of a thoroughly dissatisfied and exasperated public, who properly expect their telegrams to be either promptly despatched or delivered. If there is anything like a rush which is always expected at holiday time complaints of the muddle and fuddle at this department are thicker than leaves m Autumn. Easter provided no exception, m fact the muddle wias more marked than ever. On Thursday evening week last an important telegram addressed to a well-known man m Wellington was put m at Timaru, and on Good Friday he found the usual slip under his business "premises' door that a telegram addressed to him lay at the Post Office. Thither he repaired, but the dunderheads at the Post Office knew nought of its existence, and of course could not find any telegram. He next made more enquiries, but without avail, and determined to await developments. Things developed on Tuesday morning, when his telegram arrived, and the scribbling on the envelope indicated that it had been hawked all over the city, and that he had been sought anywhere but the Bright place. Just fancy a telecram despatched on Thursday and delivered into the addressee's hands the following Tuesday morning. It is no wonder that the public complain, and if this sort of thing continues there is likely to be a bitt barney. This Department wants stirring up badly, and the sooner the better.