SPECIAL BUTTER COUPONS

Press, Volume LXXXV, Issue 25934, 14 October 1949, Page 10

SPECIAL BUTTER COUPONS

Sir, —:Cannot some better arrangement be made for the issue of special butter coupons, especially for the people 70 years of age, who, according to a recent notice, have to apply at the Chief Post Office to receive their coupons. To deny these people the use of the suburban post offices and to expect them to travel from Burnham or some distant suburb and face traffic hazards to stand in a queue for their just share of butter is, to my mind, a most unreasonable request, and just another form of regimentation. One asks if the present arrangement is due to head office instruction. lor it is difficult to under-

stand why this service for elderly people is so restricted, also why cannot the same arrangement as made at the last issue again be practised, only not so belatedly.—Yours, etc., RIP VAN WINKLE.

October 11, 1949. [The Chief Postmaster at Christchurch (Mr D. R. Thomson) says: “The manager at Howardville arranges the renewal of the special issues for all the pensioners at Burnham. The arrangements this year are similar to those made in previous years. Applications from aged or infirm persons, who are unable to visit the Chief Post Office, are accepted by suburban postmasters and forwarded to the Chief Post Office for fulfilment.”]