NAPIER ITEMS.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 703, 31 December 1909, Page 3

NAPIER ITEMS.

f "IRRITATING USB; OF BED; TAPE.' Iβ' >(tiy Telegraph.—Special - Correspondent .l ~'l l : - ■.'": ':'■'- '■ i v . ; .'/ Napier,, December 30.; ,tl The return of Christmas business trans !r acted at the Chiof -Post:Office,-Napier !r and the sub-district, extending iron '8 -north of Wairoaf nearly -to Woodville f" is; now {available It gives. the followini l i information:—St3mps . sold (Decembc »» 17, t0,24): 1909-Chief office, .£492 6s. 6(1. [<= snTi-offices, : 16s; 6d.i Total; JE1157 3s ™ 1908—Chief, office, 1, ■ 17s;- 10di • -sub »■ offices,' X 721 ,6s. :2d.: Total, .£ll4B i-,4s w . Increase, MSs. -jVlail matter (Dccom her 17 to 24): pf bags am hampers handled/ 2137; increase, 125.' "Our readtrs"' (says the'"Napier Tele graph") "will.: probably ' have observei that returns have been, telegraphed froi other centres, and/thero is no real rcaso; :why Napier figures should not' havo bee: published earlier.' -A reporter called o: the chief postniaster,'Mr. : T.;T/-Kin{ and asked for thelreturhs. That:gentl« man said that the figures had been com .piled,-'but'.courteously refused 1 to ban them to our representative, as allomcer had received instructions not to give pai ticulars of Christmas traffic tq the pres without , tho permission.. of the Secrelarj Mr. D. Eobortson.. Ho telegraphed fo thjs. The Department did not refuse th information, and it seems an unnecessar and irritating use of. red tapeism- to g thfough such formality" in a democrat! -country, where thn peoplo own' the. D< pa'rtmciit, and have therefore a : right t know how /their! investment is progres: ,ing." ■■•;'■'; ■-,■■ : .:-.: ■■•' .':,"' : ■;/:;.' '■ ... At the , instance of the Wairoa Boroug Councila conference will bo'■ held wit Mr. - ''Geo. , '.Nelson at, Wairoa to-moiro night regarding the harnessing of- tl Waikaromoana for the goneration ofele trical: power. The Mayor: of Gisbort (Mr. W. D. Lysnar) haa been deputed ( ' represent • the; Gisborno ' Boro.ugh > Cou] cif; - ! ''- ; -'..'. - . ■•■■'■' '".'' -' ■-' ' :-, ■ : ■■". V