MANAIA TELEPHONE AND POSTAL FACILITIES.

Hawera Star, Volume L, 26 August 1930, Page 9

MANAIA TELEPHONE AND POSTAL FACILITIES.

(To the Editor.) Sir, —Can you let me know through your columns why it is impossible to get access to our letter boxes in the Manaia Post. Office at, say, S p.m. on Sundays, and also why it is that, although the telephone exchange is open on week nights until 11 p.m.. it is impossible for a, stranger to use the ’.phone after b p.m. .unless he can get access as a. favour to a private ’phone or patronise the pubs at the risk (after 6 p.m.) of being charged with being on licensed premises after closing; hoursl" Thanking you in anticipation. I am, etc..MANAIA. [lnquiries from the Manaia P'ost Office elicit the information that the private box lobby is open from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Sundays, when the exchange clerk goes off duty and closes it. On week days the exchange is open from 6 a.m. to midnight, but when the office closes at 5 p.m. the counter toll is also closed, and toll calls have then to be put through private or business telephones. There are no slot telephones at Manaia. and a person desiring to 'use the post office telephone for a local call lias to pay a fee of 4d. After the office lias closed at 5 p.m. no calls may be made except through subscribers’, telephones.—Ed. “Star.”]