AIR MAILS

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLII, Issue 20531, 24 September 1936, Page 5

AIR MAILS

COMPLAINTS CO N C ERMNG DELAYS By Telegraph—Press Association WELLINGTON, September 23. Complaints from business firms that the United Kingdom air mails are not being despatched 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 arrived in Auckland on Sunday, five air mail letters despatched from London on August 21, Ipswich on August 21, Tunbridge Wells on August <2l, 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 the unreliable news appearing in the Press, presumably supplied by the Post and Telegraph Department, in regard to the date, on which mails are expected to arrive. Mr M. G. C. McCaul advocated using the American service to speed up delivery. Mr J. Madden, Chief Postmaster, explained the delay in the case mentioned, saying that it had been caused by an accident to the airliner Horsa. He was confident the quickest possible channels were used to deliver mails.