DELAYED AIR MAILS

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19127, 23 September 1936, Page 4

DELAYED AIR MAILS

COMPLAINT IN CITY "UNRELIABLE" DATES (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. Complaints from business firms' that United Kingdom air mails were not being dispatched as early as possible from Sydney, and a request that the chamber should investigate the question of delay there, were made by two member firms of the council of the Wellington Chamber of Commerce. One firm wrote that it had received by the Monterey, which arrivea at Auckland on Sunday, five air mail letters dispatched from London on August 20, from Ipswich on August 21, from Tunbridge Wells on August 27, from Ipswich on August 28, and from London on August 29. This was evidence of the unsatisfactory way the air mail was being handled in Sydney.

The firm also drew attention to what it alleged was unreliable news appearing in the press, presumably supplied by the Post and Telegraph Department, in regard to dates on which mails were expected to arrive.

Mr. M. G. C. McOaul advocated using the American service to speed up the delivery.

Mr. J. Madden, the chief postmaster, explained the delay in the case mentioned, saying that it had been caused by the accident to the air liner Horsa. He was confident that the quickest possible channels were used to deliver the maili,