THE MOANA’S MAILS

Southland Times, Issue 14188, 10 August 1909, Page 5

THE MOANA’S MAILS

B&ZsEASEIJ 3Y EHA TffATEE. ACCIDENT AT NAPLES. Among the English malls brought in by (lu? Moana yesterday was a quantity of matter saturated with water. Private firms received packets in a very dilapidated condition. The magazine mail seemed (o suffer :ove"e!y. the pages of magazines 1.-ung stuck together, illustrations ruined and so on. Similar damage caused complaints at Melbourne, The mails ware brought, out by the new steamer Ortsova, and the Ago reports that packets containing goods of all descriptions which had undoubtedly been under water for seme time were handed in saturated and utterly ruined at the Melbourne addresses by the postmen. Great havoc was wrought by the water on printed matter, warehouse samples and other material of flimsy hulk, and already claims have reached the G.P.O. in respect of damaged goods. When que'diened regarding the cause of the destruction the oUieer in charge of the mail room said lie had been informed that the lighter currying the mails lo the Orsova tit Naples had sunk In apy case it was abundantly cleat that the salt. water bail penetrated through a vast quantity of stuff, and there still remain piles of damp, unsorted mail packages in (he mail room. Tito postal officials at Invercargill give the same explanation of the damage, viz., tit at there was some mishap at. Naples. The Invercargill Athenaeum was among the sufferers, some of (lie magazines and periodicals being almost unlit for the purposes of the reading room.