Letter Mails Are Still Being Handled

Wanganui Chronicle, 27 December 1950, Page 4

Letter Mails Are Still Being Handled

WELLINGTON, Yesterday (PA).—■ A letter mail service will be maintained between all centres throughout the country in the event of failure to reach a settlement in the railway strike. Second class mail will be handled where possible, but parcels will be accepted only at the sender’s risk and perishables not at all. A Post Office spokesman said today that If necessary normal mail contractors and Post Office mail vehicles will begin t 0 operate the letter mall service to all centres from tomorrow. Where possible letter mails will be despatched by air. Three departmental lorries will leave simultaneously from Wellington and Auckland tomorrow morning. They will deliver and pick up mall at all centres and will change over at Taumarunul. Similar services will operate between Wellington and Napier with a changeover at Palmerston North and between Wellington and New Plymouth with a changeover at Wanganui. In the South Island lorries will run between Invercargill and Christchurch with a changeover at Dunedin. Another service will run between Christchurch and Greymouth. Other interchange services will also be run between smaller centres.