BUSINESS SUSPENDED.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 13 November 1926, Page 5

BUSINESS SUSPENDED.

NGAERE POST OFFICE CLOSED. PROTEST BY SETTLERS. The post office at Ngaere is at present temporarily closed and no information is available as to when it will be re-opened. It understood ''.hat <mo official in charge of the office has not been in the best of health lately and is also dissatisfied with the salary In this regard it may be mentioned that up to a short time ago the salary of the postmistress was supplemented by an allowance from the Railway Deparrment for certain work done for that, department. This no longer applies, and it appears the remuneration received is £65 a year from the Postal Department. On Thursday evening 30 settlers assembled in the local hall and thoroughly discussed the situation. Mr IS. B. Frvday presided. It was decided that a committee, consisting of the chariruan, Messrs J. Pennington and H. C. Taylor, wait upon the postmaster at Stratford to urge tlrn re-opening of the post office, and that the committee also draw up and circulate a petition throughout the district asking the Postmaster-General: (1) to cause the Ngaere Post Office to be immediately re-opened;. (2) to assure the settlers that in future the office will remain a permanent one; (3) to take steps to see that the postmaster or mistress a Ngaere receives an adequate living wage, in accordance with the respon sibility of the position. The committee was further authorised to wire the Postmaster-General in the event of no satisfactory arrangement being made with the Stratford postmaster for an immediate temporary service.

The following resolution was also carried: That this representative and well attended meeting of .Ngaere settlers cm pliatically protest against the action of the Post' and Telegraph Department in closing the Ngaere Post Office, and desire that the attention of the Postmaster General be drawn to the groat inconvenience caused through the cessation of postal business at Ngaere. Yesterday a deputation of Ngaere settlers waited upon the postmaster, Mr A. W. Downer, who promised to communicate with his head office. -It is understood that an endeavour :s to bo made to have the Ngaere post office temporarily reopened in a store in the township.—Abridged from Post.