RURAL MAILS

Feilding Star, Volume XVIII, Issue 4593, 19 May 1922, Page 4

RURAL MAILS

FOR COUNTRY SETTLERS. NEW REGULATIONS ISSUED. Regulations relating to rural mails are published in tlie Gazette this week. Thoy relate to the new scheme announced some mouths ago by the Postmaster-General. They iucludo the following: No person who resides within the postman's delivery limits of a town where such delivery is in operation, or who resieds within .half a mile of any post oilice, shall beeligible to purchase and erect a rural mail box. Unless the circumstances arc exceptional, no rural delivery shall be established unless there is an average of four families to be served for each mile covered, and in the case of a routo less than ten miles in length the average nuinbe.* of families to the mile must be not less than six. No rural mail-box can bo held in the joint names of a number of persons, unless it is known that the applicants are in business partnership. Private persons arc not pcrnitited to join in renting a rural mail-box. Snb-j jeefc to the above restrictions, any| person to whom exception is not tahen by the Postmaster-General, and who is willing to pay the appointed Fee, may have a rural mail-box. Not more than one family shall use the same box, but guests and employees of any such family shall be entitled to have their correspondence placed therein without any additional fee. No rural mail-route shall be ex-! tended to include delivery to any por-i son whose residence is within one mile of a rural mail-route, and no rural mail-delivery shall bo established except whore the route is maintained in good coaidtion, is unobstructed by gates (unless they are made to open automatically), and is ojeu for traffic throughout the year. Except in special circumstances, no rural mail-route shall he arranged over which the carrier will be required to retrace, or travel oner, '.he same: road twice in the same day. The feel payable to enable any person to participate a rural delivery shall be £1 per annum for a service having a frequency greater than three, times weekly, and 10s per annum for a service having a frequency of thrice weekly or less