FEUDING MATTERS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 24, 29 January 1908, Page 3

FEUDING MATTERS.

•MORE MOISTURE WANTED. FEILDING, This Day. Hot days and cool nights, with fairly heavy dews, continue in this district. The land hums with the sound of tha harvester and threshing machines. Agriculturists want some wet for their root crops. A GRIEVANCE. The Feilding Star thus airs a grievance of country business men : — "Most fearful and wonderful a-re some of the improved methods being adopted of late in connection with the administrate" departments of the Government. Most folks had hardly recovered from the astonishment caused by the instruction issued, that tho extravagant system of allowing the officer in chaige of the police to have a private box afc the post-office in his district should be discontinued, thao another has been promulgated, in referenco to ths formal work of declarations in regard to Customs entries being witnessed by Justices of tho Peace. Hitherto, it has been the custom to get members of the great unpafd force to do this small duty, as they are .nost convenient to get at, but a, new regulation has been gazetted by which jjostmasters are to be the medium of guaranteeing the bona fides oi importers. The inconvenience to tradespeople by the change will be very great, and in fact the position will be rendered intolerable; but that is not the only trouble At the present time postmasters have to do too much of that sort of thing outside their own departmental duties, and with this unnecessary addition there is sure to be trouble for both officials and business men.