RURAL MAIL AT GERALDINE

Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23538, 16 January 1942, Page 9

RURAL MAIL AT GERALDINE

DAILY SERVICE RESTORATION WANTED BY FARMERS Representations asking that the reduction of rural mail services be reconsidered have been made to the Oil Fuel Controller by the executive of the Geraldine branch of the New Zealand Farmers' Union, the secretary (Mr P. G Withers) told a representative of "The Press” yesterday. It had been pointed out to the oil fuel controller that the mailman, who now has to deliver bread and urgent parcels, did not deliver at Speechley’s bridge until 7.40 p.m. In some other districts the mail service had been reestablished. The FaTmers’ Union felt that for efficient production and to relieve what in many cases was undue hardship, a reconsideration of the position was of urgent importance. "Never has the need of a daily service been so great as to-day when the fanner is practically isolated on his farm for lack of transport,” a farmer told a representative of “The Press" yesterday. This was proved by the increasing volume of urgent parcels being carried by the mail car. He could not understand why the authorities had not introduced a gas producer so that the daily service could be continued. ______________ Largest Tunnel in Europe.—A Danish firm has completed the largest tunnel in Europe and the biggest In traffic capacity in the world, under the river Maas, in Rotterdam, after four and a half years’ building. The tunnel is more than a mile long. It was not excavated, but was built in sections, which were sunk in the river bed.— Copenhagen, January 11 _ (