20 Mails P.A.

Improved Service for Tahiti

From Our Own Correspondent.

PAPEETE, September 6.

IT is officially announced by the Chief of the Post and Telegraph Department that by arrangement with the postal authorities of the United States a supple mentary mail service has been established via Colon (Canal Zone) by means of the Messageries; Maritimes steamers, seven of which call at Tahiti during the year en route from France to New Caledonia and vice versa.

The colony of French Oceania will now have 20 incoming and outgoing mails per annum instead of the 13 provided for merly by the vessels of the Union Steam ship Co.

The first batch of mail to arrive at Tahiti under this new arrangement came by the Ville de Verdun on September 1 days ahead of the S.S. Maunganui.

“Dashed if I can see any hope for the recovery of the copra industry until some new uses are found. After all, who wants SOAP ?