FEILDING’S RURAL MAILS

Feilding Star, Volume 5, Issue 1287, 22 December 1927, Page 5

FEILDING’S RURAL MAILS

WAITUNA AND KiMBOLTON PRESENT TIMETABLE TO BE MAINTAINED Thanks to the alertness of those concerned,- the rural mail services, Fo*klirig-Kiniholtori and ' FeildingWaitunn., will not suffer any alteration of timetable. It had been difficult to ascertain who was the -successful tender for those contracts, Mr Minson haying decided, owing to ill-health not to' : tender. Eventually it- was discovered that,-a, Palmerston North newspaper C«. had signed up for these two services The settlers interested had * been informed that an effort was being mad© to alter the time tables, and tha> the now contractors would leave Feilding very early in the morn iug and return practically before breakfast. The settlers were up in arms at this suggest)! on of a general upset of a. timetable which had proved inose convenient over a period of BO years or more. The Waitunasettlors' practically unanimously signed a petition urging that the present timetable should bo maintained. This petition was. handed to Mr J. Or. Eliott, M.P.. with the request tlmt he should present it to the Chief Secretary of the Postal Department, Cheltenham, Kiwi tea and Jvimbol- , ton settlors also got in. Touch with Air Eliott, having been told the morning mail to Ivimbolton and the midday return mail would ho altered. Yesterday afternoon. the following telegram was received from Air Eliott; — “Pleas© let tb© settlers know that it lias been decided bv tb© Chief Secrets rv that the present timetable. Feilding to Waituna, and Feilding to Ivimholton, must bo maintained; also that motor cars mini 1; p employed in 'thd senTtto and not motor cycles. No alteration to this arrangement to be agreed to by the department unless the settlers interest arc agreeable.”