JOINT ARRIVAL

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLII, Issue 20512, 2 September 1936, Page 6

JOINT ARRIVAL

NORTH AND SOUTH MAILS BUSY TIME FOR STAFF The postmen played the usual tune on their whistles in Timaru yesterday afternoon, but the North Island mails did not accompany them. The late arrival of the steamer express prevented that. The mail was brought on the later express from the north, and after having to pick up the mail carried by the express from the south, which arrived about the same time, the postal van was loaded to the roof when it left the railway station. Its cargo was in the hands of an anxious mail room staff at 5.10. The officials set about the task of sorting with a will, and in about 50 minutes the private boxes, which had returned a nil result to a stream of office boys throughout the afternoon, suddenly became most productive. Twenty-one bags of mall and 21 parcel receptacles provided the reason. The large influx of packages from northern and southern offices was supplemented by overseas mail brought by the Makura from Sydney, the Kaimiro from Melbourne and the Rangitane from London, The postmen had completed their rounds by the time householders’ mail was available, and as a result an early start will have to be made with the sorting this morning, and the letter carriers will be despatched with much toiler bags than usual. While some of the public were no doubt inconvenienced by the non-ap-pearance of the weekly letter, it Is not often that the ferry fails to connect. When it does no section of the community is more sorry than the postal officials, especially when the north mail is of the volume it was yesterday and its arrival clashes with another large mail from the south.