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No. 121. The Secretary, General Post Office, Wellington, to the Branch Manager, Oceanic Steamship Company, Auckland. S lR) __ General Post Office, Wellington, 4th March, 1907. I have the honour to confirm my telegrams of the 22nd ultimo and 2nd instant on the subject of the San Francisco mail-service. It is to be regretted that owing to the failure of your company to keep its steamers in proper repair, it should be found necessary for the Acting Postmaster-General to order that no mails for Great Britain shall be sent to or received from the United Kingdom by way of San Francisco until further notice. The irregular running of the steamers and the lengthy voyages which have been the rule for some time past render it imperative that the service should for at least a time be abandoned for mails beyond America. Under the circumstances it will not be necessary that the Mail Agents accompany the steamers. I should be obliged if you would direct that all mail-room fittings are to be handed over to the Chief Postmaster, Auckland. I have, &c, W. Gray, Secretary. V. A. Sproul, Esq., Branch Manager, Oceanic Steamship Company, Auckland. [S.F. Agr. 07/66.] _^___^_^_^^^_
No. 122. The Secretary, Postmaster-General's Department, Melbourne, to the Secretary, General Post Office, Wellington. Commonwealth of Australia, Postmaster-General's Department, g IB ;_ Melbourne, sth March, 1907. I have the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your cablegram of to-day's date, which reads as follows [No. 120], and to inform yon that the Deputy Postmasters-General in Die several States are being advised accordingly. 1 have, &c, The Secretary, General Post Office, Wellington. Robt. T. Scott, Secretary. [S.F. Agr. 07/80.] ______
No. 123. The Branch Manager, Oceanic Steamship Company, Auckland, to the Secretary, General Post Office, Wellington. Oceanic Steamship Company, American and Australian Line, gIK __ Auckland, 6th March, 1907. We have the honour to acknowledge receipt of your communication of the 4th instant, confirming your telegrams of 22nd ultimo and 2nd instant, on the subject of the San Francisco mat - service and regret that the Acting Postmaster-General deems it necessary to order that no mails for Great Britain shall be sent to or received from the United Kingdom by way of fean Francisco until further notice. As already advised you, my company has made arrangements for a thorough overhaul of the steamers at San Francisco, and as soon as this is completed, and the steamers made thoroughly efficient in all departments, they will again take up the running, when we earnestly hope that the difficulties which have prevented the renewal of the mail contract will have been over_ come and that, our steamers will once again carry the English mails to the entire satisfaction of your Department. We have, V. A. Sproul, Branch Manager for New Zealand. The Secretary, General Post Office, Wellington. [S.F. Agr. 07/73.]
No. 124. The Resident Agent for New Zealand, San Francisco, to the Secretary, General Post Office, - Wellington. Resident Agency for New Zealand, San Francisco, 216 California Street, 6th March, 1907. ******** 1 have also to acknowledge the receipt on the 23rd February of your cable reading FNo J l3l rom which 1 understand that the mails intended for the ''.\entura "_ have been withheld and thaHlilv will be sent from Auckland about the 15th March, probably vu> Fiji and Vancouver and tl, at the London mails that would in the usual course come through here for the ontwill mean a suiens'on oV the mail route from England via San Francisco until such time as the out taking definite ac ion in ag | he Bil / that had reac hed its final stages pro- «« «*•. Pacifio - * nd the ne " Congress may possibly bring forward a Bill that will include all Pacific lines.