MAILS AND RED-TAPE.
AMUSING DEPARTMENTAL STUPIDITY. A Kawakawa message to tho Eotorua "Chronicle" tells a story of red-tape run mad that will take some beating:
"Tho passengers by the WhangareiKawakawa express wore amused to-day upon reaching Towai to see over fifty bags of mails for the far north dumped out on to the railway platform, to be carried the remainder of the journey bj coach. It appears that three weeks are yet required to complete the period for which tho contract' for mails by carriage is taken, and the train is now running to .ICav.-akawa and further north; so far the moil 'm'attcr ffom the train at Toivai and brought on by coach. The position adopted is an extraordinary one, and savours of red-tape. The ordinary layman cannot grasp tho fact that though the train is running to Kawaliawa direct, the mail is ejected at Towai to be brought on by coach over twelve miles of bad road. Nevertheless, it is being done, and indicates that the Postal Deportment lias not yet awakened to the fact that the Towai-Kawakawa section is open for public business."
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1106, 20 April 1911, Page 4
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185MAILS AND RED-TAPE. Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1106, 20 April 1911, Page 4
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