RURAL MAILS.
DEPARTMENT INSISTS ON FEES. [THE PRESS Special Sorricc.l WELLINGTON, January 3. A short time ago the Executive of the New Zealand Farmers' Union made a request to the Post and Telegraph Department that no rural mail feo be charged a settler whose property is situated beyond a mile of the point of delivery.
The Department has replied, agreeing that many settlers have to travel some distance to tho point of delivery in order to dispatcli and receive their mail, but it had to bo remembered that they would probably be required to take a longer journey were there no rural delivery in existence. If the suggestion were agreed to the progressive policy in regard to rural delivery extension would have to be considerably curtailed. Without rural fees from ail settlers participating iu the rural delivery, it would not have been possible to establish quite a number of the existing services. The secretary added that the Department was actually losing at the present time on the majority of the rural deliveries, and could not favourably entertain the question of exempting settlers residing n distance of one mile and over from the rural route.
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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 18917, 4 February 1927, Page 8
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