POSTAL FACILITIES

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 27, 1 February 1924, Page 7

POSTAL FACILITIES

IMPROVEMENT AT KHANDALLAH.

Residents of Khandallah are'.'-arijc- ■ -. ious to have better postal facilities provi4ed, and this morning the secretary of the Khandallah Progress Association.' Mr. F. Bennett, accompanied by Mr." E , A. Wright, M.P., placed a request to/ •■ this effect before the Postmaster-General (the Hon J. G. Coates). Mr. A. T..V " Markman, secretary of the P. and'T. Department, was present, at the interview. .• , ■;■ '| ■" . I^?' A- bright,- M.P., said .'that ivhandallah and Ngaio were making very - great progress, which was due to the fact' ' that the City Council was installing._' water and drainage there. The resi-'" dents felt that they were suffering un--der a handicap in regard to postal facili- ' ties. ■ ... Tr^ r j t F' 5' ennett- Becretary of thoKhandallah Progress Association, stress-'----ed the difficulties under which the resi-' dents laboured, mentioning particularly the length of time it took to effect delivery of letters in the district. An'.'earlier•■delivery and better system of collecting letters was desired, and the residents were asking that ah up-to-date Post and Telegraph Office should be established. ...... ...,.,.. In reply,-the Minister stated that-thr: business, according to the records,- did < not look very big, and there had been very^little increase in the past ten years:" This might be due to the fact that many of the residents came into town every' ~ day. There-was no vote on the Estimates for a new Post Office in the dis^". trict. Hie Minister said an—improve- ■ ment would be effected in the clearanceof letters between 9.30 a.m.' and" 4.30" p.rii. In reply to Mr. Bennett, Mr."-Mark^'- , man said that if a postman were loca- ' ted at Khandallah and maihKWere sorted there, letters would be delivered: later •" than now. The majority of the residents - would post their letters in town in the":, morning. To run a motor-car out sX, midnight for half a dozen or a dozen. » letters would soon put penny postage ■': " in Queer Street, and be a waste of pub- ' lie moneys '. '.'" '..-, Mr. Bennett said he did riot wish to-' waste public money, but no. one could ' tell how many letters would. be: collected nightly. . ..... , The Minister said lie would try to : arrange something better in the 'Way .df J money-order facilities at Kliandallah." ■ The delivery of mails from Wellington to Khandallah could be conducted more expeditiously than if the letters were • sent to KhandnUah from all p'arts-of-i. New Zealand for sorting. If a tiioff ■ suitable closing time at Khnndallah' could be arranged it would be. done:""'' Postal order and money-order facilities would be provided, if possible. Care-" ful thought would bo given to the- re--quest inada by Mr. Bennett... .....■; ..::