Use of couriers
Sir, —Your issue of August 12 reports that the Central Canterbury Electric Power Board and groupings of businessmen are -using couriers to by-pass the Post Office. What else can we expect after such savage increases? Had past governments used good business practice by putting Post Office profits into a sinking fund for plant replacement, we would not be in the present mess. Instead, they were siphoned into the Consolidated Fund where they were’ useful for election sweetening. Further, the offices of Prime Minister and Minister of Finance should not be held by one man so often out of the country. Power so concentrated results in mistakes impossible to remedy. Both printed and pictorial evidence now available helps us to question the track record of both major parties. We are governed by prematurely ageing men too tired to think. Remember Bahrain. — Yours, etc., A. M. COATES. August 12, 1980.
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