MISSING MAIL

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1038, 31 July 1930, Page 18

MISSING MAIL

FAILED TO CONNECT WITH NIAGARA BUT REACHED CITY TODAY English mail which missed the Niagara at Vancouver on her last voyage reached Auckland this morning on the American steamer Golden Coast. This will clear up the mystery of missing letters which has been concerning business men in Auckland. The Golden Coast carried 400 hags of mail from the United States. Thirty-seven hags of this consignment should have reached Auckland by the Niagara on July 14. They had been carried from England to New York on the Berengaria, but missed the Niagara connection at Vancouver. The Golden Coast is one of the vessels subsidised by the United States Government to carry mails to New Zealand. This has been a particularly busy week for the Postal Department. Overseas mails have either been received or dispatched every day, and, in addition to this, city firms have been sending out enormous numbers of seasonal circulars. On Monday the Niagara arrived from Sydney with 49S hags of mail, and on Tuesday the outward mail was dispatched to England, Europe, America, and other countries. Mails from the Maunganui, via Wellington, arrived on Wednesday. Today the San Francisco mail from the Tahiti, via Wellington, reached Auckland, along with 37 bags of second class mail from the Maunganui. Tomorrow 541 bags of second class mail froni the Tahiti will reach Auckland, and the outward mails for Australia and the East will be dispatched by the Maunganui, which sails from Auckland. “It has been one of the most consistently busy weeks I have known for many months,” a post office official stated' this mrrning.