GLENOMARU.

Clutha Leader, Volume I, Issue 4, 30 July 1874, Page 3

GLENOMARU.

(From Our Own Correspondent)

The settlers in Glenomaru(Aburiri Flat), Upper and Lower Owake, and the industrious population at the Catlin's River Saw Mills, have certainly . good reason to grumble at the existing postal arrangements for tbeir correspondence with the rest of the world. Their letters are forwarded twice a week to Port Molyneux by tbe mailman to that place, and the morning after — that is on Wednesdays and Saturdays — are delivered in Glenomaru and the Owake, the mailman returning the same afternoon with the outgoing mail, which has been made up the night before, and these letters lie at Port Molyneux until the succeeding Wednesday or Saturday morning, when they are taken to Balclutha to be forwarded to their various destinations. There ia one contractor for the conveyance of tbe mails to Warepa, Waitepeka, Puerua, and South Molyneux, and he taking charge of the Catlin's lii ver bag, carries it first of all three or four miles too far to the westward to Warepa, then passing the road which branches off near the Puerua to Catlin's liiver, carries it three or four miles too far to the eastward to Port Molyneux. Now, a mailman takiug the letters for Catlin's direct from Balclutha, would probably reach his destination as soon as the above- named contractor reaches Port Molyneux; and the inhabitants of that district and Glenomaru would enjoy as good opportunities for the rapid and frequent interchange o£ letters as ia possessed by their more fortunate fellow settlers of the Puerua, distant from them about six or eight miles. The fact the conveyance of mails from Balclutha to the wbole district included under the names Warepa, Waitepeka, Puerua, South Molyneux, Glenomaru, and Catlin's liiver, or Owake, requires readjustment.