OUR LETTER BOX

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XXXV, Issue 5005, 23 January 1907, Page 4

OUR LETTER BOX

(Wo arc not responsible for opinions expressed by corespondents..)

THE INTERUPTED MAIL SERVICES.

(To ; tthi:.Edit^r.j Sir!— Being 'a resident of this district and one, among many others, who has been greatly inconvenienced by our past week's mail services. 3 ayquW like, to . air my grievance Abfoiigfa 4h« Columns of your paper. Since Tuesday last there have own daily enquiries at the post otlu:e h<iv •by settlers (\v«o are _ anxious for their correspondence) : If the mail has -arrived yet? Instead of receiving their mail they are -'informed that owing to the roads being impassable, (due to the late Hoods) the mail coach has been unable to get along- Now, sir, I would like it to be thoroughly understood that although such an important vehicle as a mail coach cannot find access I to tho post ioHice, other conveyances | from business people in Te Luke hiw v been able to •deliver their goods with or no i -delay. While admitting ! that the roads are in a very bad state, I still maintain that where a grocer's cart can go a mail coach should be able to deliver mail* ut the respective .post otlices. Thanks Ho oiic of bur settlers we were able" to receive a mail to-day ; he, apparently, being a little more considerate than our present mail contractors, for the poor struggling J-uck-block settler came five miles out of his way to deliver the mail at thu post oflice.. I have always been given to understand ihat His Majesty's mail, must .proceed- at almost any cost, but seemingly lam greatly mistaken, judging toy the past week' experience. Now, ,1 would very much like to know if such a sudden stoppage in the' iae&l service (which is entirely unnecessary) -would be sanctioned by tho officials of the lost and Telegraph department at Wellington, if they were aware of tho .•delay existing here, if they jfi-e unaware, then tho sooner tlvoy are acquainted of it the better for all who are desirous of rucoiving their mail at the proper time and place. Hoping a; more abler pen -/ill take the matter up and in this wav prevent a repetition in the future. Thanking you for the space allotted.—l am, etc., STILL' WAITING. Pongakawa, Jan. 19, 1907.