The Feilding Star Oroua and Kiwitea Counties’ Gazette MONDAY, APRIL 10, 1933. BAD BUSINESS

Feilding Star, Volume 10, Issue 3996, 10 April 1933, Page 4

The Feilding Star Oroua and Kiwitea Counties’ Gazette MONDAY, APRIL 10, 1933. BAD BUSINESS

One of the effects of the economic blizfcsard that has been blowing over New Zealand was the compulsory economy effected by private firms of cutting out the use ot private boxes at the Post Office. Eeihling’s office to-duy lias a number of empty spaces and if all the empty boxes in the Dominion were counted up it would be found that the department was losing quite a. large sum. Which reminds us that a move bv Christchurch business men io have the fee for private letter boxes at Ihe Post Office reduced from •■£] 10s to the former rate of £1 a year was discussed at a meeting of the executive of the Canterbury Progress League. It was decided io write to the Chamber or Commerce, seeking its co-operation in trying- to have the suggested reduction brought about. One' speaker sni.il that his firm, which for 50 years had had a private letter box, had recently cut it out. Now the firm had its mail, delivered three, times a day and received good service. Formerly tiie firm, had to send a member of the staff to clear the box. The postman now has an extra load —and so it might he multiplied from the Bluff to Dnrgaville.